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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6212706" data-attributes="member: 8835">I am against free internships and against "exposure" as pay as they generally result in free labor with little payoff off for the worker.In the tech industry, we pay interns $15-20/hour for their existing skills that are of use to us (even a high school nerd has experience fixing a computer/using one).  We pay so little compared to the full time staff because we are teaching them stuff while they perform actual work for us.Industries like journalism don't pay for internships.  Those people have to drive around town to interview people on their own dime, work late on election nights, etc.  And they don't get anything to pay them to live.While there's always been the stereotype of the starving artist, it costs money for supplies, and the artist needs food to eat and a place to sleep while they create (and in between creations).  They inherently need to be paid then if we want art made out of quality materials instead of another garbage statue made by a smelly homeless person.</blockquote>