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skylurk 24 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneu...

Back in college (USA) friends would spin up LLCs for the summer just to buy mowers or vans to do yard work. They would hire all the students who didn't get summer jobs. Those hired students would make about 3x a STEM intern makes in western europe today.

kccqzy 24 days ago [–]

It was also in the context of Europe that I heard of the concept of an unpaid internship. I was like, what??

Saline9515 24 days ago | [–]

Sorry but do you imply interns are going to be paid? In Europe? /s

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