Unpaid internships initially emerged as a way to provide clinical training for doctors in the early twentieth century, but eventually mutated into a massive corporate loophole…

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Unpaid internships initially emerged as a way to provide clinical training for doctors in the early twentieth century, but eventually mutated into a massive corporate loophole allowing companies to extract free labor from desperate college students. By labeling entry-level grunt work as an educational experience, massive corporations legally bypass minimum wage laws and exploit young adults who are already drowning in crippling student loan debt. The system heavily favors the wealthy elite, as only students with rich parents can afford to work forty hours a week in New York City for absolutely zero financial compensation. We have somehow collectively normalized a modern feudal system where you basically have to pay a university for the immense privilege of working for free just so a CEO can comfortably buy a third yacht