OdiousOutlaw wrote
Agh, it's like reading an argument for trickle-down economics.
Wealthy people don't work that way.
Wealthy people usually don't work at all.
And if wealthy children do work, their parents don't make them do it for free; they use their connections to get them to work for more than what they'd get under a college internship.
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masque wrote (edited )
Yeah, there's definitely a category of college students/recent graduates who are not wealthy enough to not work in the long run, but who can still comfortably forego pay for a while if it'll benefit their career. Mainly the kids of doctors, engineers, or other well-paid professionals, supported by a combination of a good parental "college fund" and scholarships (since parents' wealth is one of the strongest predictors of the sort of academic success that translates into scholarships). I fell into that category (not that I ever took an unpaid internship).
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celebratedrecluse wrote
people who 1. don't know better and also crucially 2. have the means to make this mistake
rot wrote
wealthy in this case isn't wealthy but working class with enough money from parents to not get paid and do training/education/internship for a month or more
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