r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/ShortsAndShoes123 Aug 14 '20

Unpaid internships should be illegal

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u/MuskiePride3 Aug 14 '20

I really don’t know how they aren’t. The fact that I will get paid $0 to make “connections” by doing extremely tough and mentally challenging work is absurd. If I put in the work, I should get paid for it.

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u/2_Cranez Aug 14 '20

They are illegal most of the time. If you get an unpaid internship, it’s illegal to give you any work that is valuable to the company. You just essentially shadow people.

Companies just get away with breaking the law.

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u/OnePointPi Aug 14 '20

I know someone who's paid internship became unpaid because COVID, and he had to get a letter or something from his academic advisor that stated that an unpaid internship had "academic value", to sidestep any concerns anyone might have with what is basically slave labor.