[NorthMountain]

Just what is an internship?

Some places, it's a form of slavery.

[DH]

Some places, it’s a form of slavery.

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You are wrong. Slavery means that you can’t leave. You have the absolute freedom to leave any job you wish if you don’t like it. Don’t confuse your employer’s expectations with slavery. You came looking for a job and you are free to leave and look for another job here in America.

[rlmorel]

If it is slavery, and you don’t want to do it...you don’t.

It is nice if you get paid as an intern. But if you need the experience in the environment to get a foot in the door...then working without pay (or little pay) is a choice you have to make.

You have to view it as an investment in your own personal capital, as Thomas Sowell puts it. It would be nice to get paid, but that isn’t what it is for.

And most definitely not for submitting petitions. When they threw these people out, there was likely a whole slew of other intern wanna-bes ready to jump in.