That's part of the employee-employer relationship: The employee continues to receive payment for their work so long as they are employed.
This is the inherent trade-off of being an employee, which you as a founder should be aware of: that one (largely) gives up the chance for high return at high risk in the form of equity for the guaranteed return of a salary.
People are speaking out in this thread because many students don't _realize_ that the work they produce has value, and that they deserve to be compensated for that value. Yes, there are situations where the supply of experience in the form of internships is sufficiently low and the demand is sufficiently high (this is true in many creative professions), but it is extremely unusual for that to be true for programmers.
That's part of the employee-employer relationship: The employee continues to receive payment for their work so long as they are employed.
This is the inherent trade-off of being an employee, which you as a founder should be aware of: that one (largely) gives up the chance for high return at high risk in the form of equity for the guaranteed return of a salary.
People are speaking out in this thread because many students don't _realize_ that the work they produce has value, and that they deserve to be compensated for that value. Yes, there are situations where the supply of experience in the form of internships is sufficiently low and the demand is sufficiently high (this is true in many creative professions), but it is extremely unusual for that to be true for programmers.