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A billionaire complaining he has to pay people.... to paraphrase the title of the post, screw him.
Perhaps this is why most unpaid internship programs require you to line stuff up with your school. This was they can classify it as an educational activity?
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unlicensed medicine That's completely different. The licensing of medical practitioners is not based on any notion of protecting society from deviant behaviour; it is based on the need to protect vulnerable individuals from fraud. I have no problem with consenting individuals engaging in sex acts or internships, with or without pay -- but I absolutely believe that fraud, in all its forms, should be illegal, since a f…
One need not be licensed to be honest.
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Is The Whitehouse a for profit privately owned business (eg via stock).
I understand that.. but the fact that the white house and politicians he rails against have interns show that they think it is a positive experience. They also know a for-profit business should be paying their workers. (Not to say I agree one way or the other. It is a fine line between experience and exploitation)
So call it volunteering? Surely volunteers are not illegal yet.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/statutes/FairLaborStandAct.p...
They're the same issues with minimum wage. The "minimum wage brings minimum jobs" because it hurts those with the least experience the most ( http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/08/new-video-minim... ). The irony is that people who call themselves advocates for the poor pushing for increasingly higher minimum wages actually hurt the poor with these policies.
Where our politicians would rather see you pay out of your pocket to go back to school rather than get valuable on the job experience. huh.?. from what I have seen, politics almost runs on interns. Every politician and political organisation has unpaid interns doing real work. The whitehouse has hundreds.. http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/Internships/
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> However the profits for his business would not be enough to justify minimum wage. I think he gave the game away here: One silver lining of a “great recession” that we are now in is that there are a lot of incredibly talented people without jobs, or who have lost their jobs....I thought we could assemble a talented group who would enjoy the internships and could also gain valuable experience to add to their resumes.…
So . . . the fact you don't want him to be able to benefit from an internship is good enough reason to make sure the would-be interns don't get to benefit from it either. Is that it?
But his concern for the betterment of the interns is just sanctimonious prattle. He doesn't like to leave money on the table, and he's peeved that the government will prevent him from getting the best price possible.