If the average white house intern is as much of a ghoul as I’m imagining maybe they should just be unpaid interns forever
The only people who would be willing to do this (ESPECIALLY for free) are people who want it for the resume building, for the clout, or because they want to help out 'their' politician
While unpaid internships are absolutely barbaric, the sort of lanyard chasing, power hungry demons who take White House internships should be bullied more
And if you're naive enough to do it for free while thinking you're making a positive difference, hopefully you see otherwise
I dated a girl for a couple years that got a WH internship under fucking Trump. She had already married a former lobbyist who is now some Republican senators aid and between that and family money didn't really need a personal income. Remember her talking about how she wanted to be near the "movers and shakers" a lot. Also had very strong opinions about having a serious relationship with anyone that made less money than she was projecting herself to make.
It was like 10 years ago while she was still going back to school for poli sci. I'd like to think I was partially responsible for her leaving her fiance who was attending a police academy on the other side of the country when we first hooked up.
I was partially responsible for her leaving her fiance who was attending a police academy
Probably for the best. :fidel-salute-big:
I dated a girl for a couple years that got a WH internship under fucking Trump.
Trump was actually great for the DC lanyard crowd, as senior officials were exiting the town in droves. I know a couple of people who landed entry level jobs at the DOJ mostly because there were suddenly so many new job openings. I've heard similar stories at the IRS, the EPA, the DEA, the FBI...
One reason I think the last five years have been so great for regional opponents of the American Empire is that all the people who knew what they were doing put in for early retirement and haven't really looked back.
"Minimum wage for me, but not for thee,"
-Lanyard bros, probably.
Seriously though, what a damning look into how fucked up the US is? You can live next door to power and still they will not pay you.
A part of me hopes against reality that they won't kick out the ladder once they get theirs and that it'll start a conversation about unpaid labor.
eh. the people doing this stuff don't need money. minimum wage, unpaid, $20 an hour... it makes no difference to the cohort that in the circles of power.
also, while they are closely related under capitalism, power does have value independent of money. by that I mean that my material conditions, for example, benefit disproportionately from the family power I was born into compared to the amount of money I have. it's weird and tough to explain. like, there's no logical reason that connections would put food on the table, but it somehow sort of does.
To be clear, all workers should be paid fairly, on principle. I'm just not losing sleep over White House interns, and they aren't losing sleep themselves.
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....
All this shit is inside baseball. Get favors for friends. Make friends by handing out favors. Lewinsky's family clearly had some degree of DC social and financial clout, as her mother had a residence at the fucking Watergate apartment complex in Foggy Bottom. While any kind of unpaid work position is bullshit, its worth noting that people who can access these positions very rarely need the money.
It doesn't depend on how you look at it
Edit: mayhap i shouldve looked her wikipedia page up before posting
