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So basically unpaid internship are just class filters ?


In a lot of industries, I believe that to deliberately be the case.


> In a lot of industries, I believe that to deliberately be the case.

Maybe a simpler way of looking at this might be that given a large pool of potential applicants the incentive to actually pay these people simply isn't there if a large enough percentage of the pool doesn't require payment.

It's still the same brutally unfair result, but it doesn't require looking for conspiracy.




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