re: #424 iossarian

I think there are moral gray areas when you get into charity work. Should our food pantry be paying the folks who volunteer their time? They’re working (and in fact gaining work experience with stock management etc.). Non-profit internships more generally are morally ambiguous in this way.

But as above I agree that the downsides of allowing unpaid work tend to outweigh the benefits, and the loopholes are just too big.

I don’t see charity work or volunteering as a paid thing at all. If one volunteers one’s time that is up that that person. An internship is very different when you are doing work for a For-Profit company. If you intern for a Not-For-Profit that should be exempted from paying people because that is, to me, akin to volunteering.