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 Post subject: Slave labor latest
PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:29 pm 
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I was amused to see Thomas Frank's edition-opening essay in the latest Harper's calling for economic justice on the fifth anniversary of the economic crisis (time flies!), with a layout that ended midway down a page column, with the rest of the column devoted to a house ad calling for interns to apply -- for positions that are unpaid, of course.

And then I was unsettled to read a news report about Bank of America literally working an intern to death.

Welcome to the permanent lower class, where death might be a viable alternative.


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 Post subject: Re: Slave labor latest
PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:12 pm 
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And let's not forget poor little rich conglomerate Condé Nast, which has found a way to deal with complaints that its interns are underpaid: Just eliminate the "der."


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