Who urinated on your Eggo? If I have the choice of paying $5000 in tuition to get into job X, or not paying $5000 in tuition to get into job X, all else being the same, I don’t want the choice to be taken away, you busybody you.
Because you are destroying the very concept of capitalism with this.
There is a free market for labor, where employers looking for labor meet people needing money. The employer then ‘buys’ the persons labor - ie: hires them.
Internships kick that to the curb... for companies no longer need to follow the free market on labor. They can instead, now... simply demand, like a feudal lord, free labor. Which then leads to viewing their workforce like serfs.
We spent centuries trying to lose that pernacious evil, only to have it come right back? To find supposed conservatives - people who are supposed to champion the free market - eagerly embracing the idea of extracting free labor from people... well, to say the least, it’s *HIGHLY* disturbing.
Now, I’ve got no problem if you *WANT* to volunteer your time and effort, but it should not *EVER* be expected or demanded from you as a prerequisite.
Just as an aside, Kim Jong-Il expects his people to contribute their time and labor learning how to farm every year, without pay. I guess they’re just all on a farm internships?