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
Unless someone else footed the bill or covered your life expenses, the ability to work without compensation inherently places you to a degree of affluence.
If you didn't even develop any skills, it means your internship wasn't even of any real value, which makes using it as any metric mostly worthless, if the only real value was being able to say you know people.
The rich get richer, that's just how life works when you get down to it.
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