Yes, I did read the article. I did a bad job stating my thoughts. Yes, we're angry at Gawker about hypocrites but I guess I don't get it. All this outrage at the act of hypocrisy which is somehow on par with or worse than having unpaid interns in the first place? There's hypocrisy everywhere, I don't see how this is any different from other examples that you could pick out outside of the fact that this is being published. The fact that places like Gawker, Conde Nast, Universities/Colleges across the country, and the Government use unpaid interns should generate more discussion and outrage than the fact that one of these places happens to talk about it at the same time. Many college age students aren't fairly paid. It's not just unpaid internships. Many people with stipend pay positions on University campuses make well under the minimum wage, and I'm one of those people. These are the same people writing for campus publications about unpaid internships while making nothing or very little. But because they don't have a huge presence like Gawker there isn't as much outrage about it.
Agreed. As I said above, it's coercive and abusive.The fact that places like Gawker, Conde Nast, Universities/Colleges across the country, and the Government use unpaid interns should generate more discussion and outrage than the fact that one of these places happens to talk about it at the same time.
We agree then? I don't know what happened during that first comment, my latter one was what I had originally intended it do say but then word vomit happened.