poor intern who models another Viking foot on unpaid overtime

I don't think you know anything about the industry.

They do it to themselves. I have zero sympathy for the vidya peons, because they do it to themselves.

Do you know why the peons make squat and get treated as an expendable resource? Because they ARE an expendable resource. Every vidya hiring desk has an inbox ten thousand applications deep.

This is why I don't work in vidya. I work in (different industry). Where the pay is great and the hours are trivial.