So were you poor? I'll bet you weren't. How could you afford to work for nothing? I never could have worked for nothing at that age. I always had to work to survive. In high school I had up to three jobs. Carry out boy on Saturday and Sunday and delivering Chinese food in the evenings, etc. Most of my friends had to work when young and especially if we were going to college. I worked all the way through college and never got a cent from anyone as my mom was poor.
Only the rich and well off kids can afford to work for nothing. I could never have afforded to work for nothing. So only the rich get to have your wonderful work experience?
And you say, "how things work". That is the problem Sam, they should not work that way. Why should things work that way? We piss away trillions on stupid wars and stupid ass defense projects for the military industrial complex, stupid tax cuts for the rich and yet we cannot pay the interns and staffers of the US congress $15 an hour. Really??
Most young people could really use that money. Most are poor. Anyway most of the people I hung out with.
How about we give the poor kids a chance to have your experience?
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Really, Koan? Guess what--I worked as an intern in Congress way back in the summer of 1968 and guess what I got paid? Zero. And guess what, I would do it again as a young person. It was a great experience for a summer. Guess what many people coming out of college get paid as interns in the private sector as well as the public sector. Many staffers work for nothing? I find that part hard to believe.
E.g. her "outing" the fact the interns and many staffers are working for nothing. That is crazy, this is the US congress. Why would we have people working there for nothing? And why did no one else bring this up before? And she is going to pay them. I'll bet they change the rules now and everyone will be paid for their work, as they should be. That will be a feather in her cap.
She isn't "outing" anything, except for uninformed people like her and, apparently, you who don't know how things work but scream at every imagined wrong in the world without investigating further. Which isn't to say that everything is honky dory in Congress. Here for example is an article from last March talking about unpaid internships in Congress. But it doesn't highlight the fact that they are unpaid. It talks about NDAs.
Exclusive: Congress requires many unpaid interns to sign nondisclosure agreements
What happens in Congress stays in Congress.
By Rachel Wolfe @rachelbwolfe rachel.wolfe@vox.com Mar 5, 2018, 2:00am PST
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