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by rriepe 6199 days ago
Interns get the benefit of experience. They get to meet people. They get to try out an industry without actually committing to a full-time job.

The LinkedIn translators wouldn't have gotten any of that. It's one thing to sample a career without pay, and another to do a job for free.
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mhp 6199 days ago
Ok, so don't contribute? No one is forcing you.

Are you just as upset about people fostering rescue animals for free? Why aren't people outraged that they aren't paid.

How can you decide the motivations for someone who wants to volunteer their time to do this?

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physcab 6199 days ago
Both points made above are valid. While not a great PR move, LinkedIn is entitled to make that kind of decision and honestly I hope they get what they paid for (nothing).

Something that the free market does not take into account though is fairness or ethics. I'm not an economist, but I have enough sense to know when people are being taken advantage of and that I think is wrong.

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endtime 6199 days ago
>Something that the free market does not take into account though is fairness or ethics.

Actually, the free market is the most fair of all systems, at least for some reasonable definitions of "fair".

>I have enough sense to know when people are being taken advantage of

No one is being forced to do anything. This is a consensual arrangement. So how is anyone being taken advantage of?

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