For
Interns gain valuable experience and connections.
Against
It takes advantage of people who need income.
Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.
“They'd be far more likely to hire someone as an unpaid intern, eat the insurance costs and mold them into an employee”
“What's the alternative? People have to pay their own money to learn hvac before getting hired at a company.”
“Being “paid in experience” doesn’t mean anything when we have to be homeless and can’t eat for the next several months.”
“Unpaid internships are how the wealthy and upper-middle classes reserve the good jobs for the next generation of their classes.”