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Quit Snarking at Unpaid Internships
Zachary Slayback
Monday, August 22, 2016A good chunk of my fellow young people shared this video from Adam Ruins Everything on Facebook the other day:
It’s quirky, snarky, and filled with undertones of good ol’-fashioned moral indignation. (Although its comparison to slave labor is disgusting when you think about it).
Very little of the indignation around unpaid internships is rooted in logic or fact.
Discussion of this issue has been dominated by messages like, “Don’t work for free!” “Demand a dollar for your labor!”: all denouncing the evil slavedrivers of early stage startups working from their hip co-working spaces while striving to raise money from venture capitalists or to sell their product just to make a profit.
But very little of the indignation around unpaid internships is rooted in logic or fact. The very same people who decry them tend to be those who place a high value on spending time in the community volunteering to make an impact and create value there — and rarely see the discrepancy between these two perspectives.
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Zachary Slayback
Monday, August 22, 2016A good chunk of my fellow young people shared this video from Adam Ruins Everything on Facebook the other day:
It’s quirky, snarky, and filled with undertones of good ol’-fashioned moral indignation. (Although its comparison to slave labor is disgusting when you think about it).
Very little of the indignation around unpaid internships is rooted in logic or fact.
Discussion of this issue has been dominated by messages like, “Don’t work for free!” “Demand a dollar for your labor!”: all denouncing the evil slavedrivers of early stage startups working from their hip co-working spaces while striving to raise money from venture capitalists or to sell their product just to make a profit.
But very little of the indignation around unpaid internships is rooted in logic or fact. The very same people who decry them tend to be those who place a high value on spending time in the community volunteering to make an impact and create value there — and rarely see the discrepancy between these two perspectives.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE