Casual Dress Friday; Internship or Slavery
Posted on July 25, 2008
Filed Under Casual Dress Fridays
The other day I stumbled across a blog post that compared internships to slavery. Filled with sarcasm, it seemed like a good fit for our Friday post. The site is called stuffwhitepeoplelike.com and despite it’s name, it is not a racially based site, rather a sarcastic look corporate life from a Caucasian point of view and the irony the inevitably ensues. Below is a bit of their post comparing internships to slavery, to read the entire post click here.
In most of the world when a person works long hours without pay, it is referred to as “slavery” or “forced labor.” For white people this process is referred to as an internship and is considered an essential stage in white development.
The concept of working for little or no money underneath a superior has been around for centuries in the form of apprenticeship programs. Young people eager to learn a trade would spend time working under a master craftsman to learn a skill that would eventually lead to an increase in material wealth.
Using this logic you would assume that the most sought after internships would be in areas that lead to the greatest financial reward. Young White people, however, prefer internships that put them on the path for careers that will generally result in a DECREASE of the material wealth accumulated by their parents.
Have a great weekend.
Until next time…
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