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E.g., I'm Bob the Senior Policy Advisor for Real Cool Programs in the office of the Awesome Governor of Cooltown. Balrogo0 was invaluable in ensuring our Progressive Movement (tm) work at Richguy Foundation actualized some jargon while also centering community voices in the blah, you'll be glad you hired him

That's what matters. It's hard and expensive to structure meaningful volunteerism.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Are you sure you're not confusing "interns" and "volunteers"?

I'm just saying that internships aren't really about just skills or just about networking. There's an intersection between the two.

darkbuster posted...

In practice, unpaid internships are typically just an excuse to get unpaid labor. The only people who truly benefit from them are those affluent enough that an internship probably wasn't necessary to begin with.

1) I've benefited from them and I'm not affluent
2) For me and where I work, internships are more about community service and relationship building than getting any specific productivity out of an intern.
3) as I said, even with paid internships, affluent people disproportionately benefit

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