White House interns will be paid for the first time, in a change designed to make its internship program more accessible to lower-income students, the Biden administration said on Thursday.
If the average white house intern is as much of a ghoul as I’m imagining maybe they should just be unpaid interns forever
They don't pay you because it means that only people who can afford to work without being paid can do the job, reinforcing class and concentrating power in the upper classes.
Cost of Living in DC has gotten so high and the demand for labor has grown so intense that I suspect they can't afford to do this anymore.
Why the fuck would I want to be a bus-boy at some White House dinner with a bunch of has-beens and never-weres when I can land a job at Amazon or Exxon or Tesla and make six-figures walking in the door? Live like a broke college kid for another four years or jump-start my career in a bureaucracy with some actual fucking clout... hmm....
They don't pay you because it means that only people who can afford to work without being paid can do the job, reinforcing class and concentrating power in the upper classes.
Cost of Living in DC has gotten so high and the demand for labor has grown so intense that I suspect they can't afford to do this anymore.
Why the fuck would I want to be a bus-boy at some White House dinner with a bunch of has-beens and never-weres when I can land a job at Amazon or Exxon or Tesla and make six-figures walking in the door? Live like a broke college kid for another four years or jump-start my career in a bureaucracy with some actual fucking clout... hmm....