sggatecl
Senior Member
We agree on a very small detail. What you're missing is the logic behind calling something an internship so you can avoid paying someone and claiming that the experience itself is pay enough is ridiculous. The experience is part of the value proposition for every job and it's factored into wages. It is precisely the argument behind being able to pay low skill workers lower wages.
Some of the candidates support a minimum wage, to my knowledge, only Bernie supports a living wage. The fact that he demands others pay $15/hour then calling his low skill workers "interns" is smoke and mirrors. It's hard to believe bernie people don't see it that way. They're either fools or they're making excuses for the old man. Whichever it is isn't important - he is still a hypocrite.
By the way, I have absolutely no problem with people working as unpaid or low paid interns. I think all employer/employee consensual relationships should settle at a mutually agreed upon wage. I'm just not foolish enough to think Sanders isn't a hypocrite for not paying all his employees a living wage.
So if he didn't pay his interns anything, you would be A-Ok with his intern program?