Intern Nation

The New York Observer on the rise of unpaid labour:

The upshot is this: When interns work for nothing, as Frederick first pointed out, they lower the value of everyone else’s work. In publishing, for instance, it’s not uncommon for editorial assistants to earn less than $30,000 a year, for aspiring writers to blog for the mere satisfaction of seeing their bylines, and for more seasoned journalists to write long book reviews for a few hundred dollars

If you have enough talent to be an intern, you have enough talent to get paid.

Never work for free.

Also, see this.

Via Archinect.