Why You Should Never Have Taken That Prestigious Internship - PolicyMic
All the links so far are good, too. (Her
piece about MOOCs, for example, which is related.) I'm not quite done reading all of them, though. Maybe there will be some stuff that sucks.
This is one of the most disturbing trends I've ever witnessed. Things were pretty bad when I got out of college, too. Unemployment was about what it is now, so it was sort of default that your first job would be underpaid and you'd have to job hop to get out of the pay rut and start making a salary commensurate with your experience. But at least they paid more than a fast food job, and I certainly don't remember seeing this kind of bald exploitation in job ads:
The Daily Dot - Penny Arcade's brutally honest job posting spurs Internet backlash
The backlash part is good, though. That's one thing that definitely needs to happen if we're going to retain any possibility of upward class mobility beyond the middle middle class in the US. That, and real, actual painful penalties for illegal internships and other worker exploitation--the kind of thing that companies can't just absorb as a cost of doing business.
(Also, I advocate shaming the fuck out of anyone who takes that Penny Arcade job.)
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