New account lasted 19 days. Time to make another one. I will never stop fighting the libtards and trannies.
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Actually, I changed my mind. I'll tell a story. Let's pretend that you (actually you, in this case) are in need of a job. There's an economist down the street and you really want to learn from them, but unfortunately you have a child's understanding of economics.
The economist is like, "hey, no problem -- I see some potential in you, but since you're basically worthless I'd be willing to hire you at $0.01/hr and I'll feed you lunch."
You're like, "damn, what a deal! I'm an idiot with no skills but this guy is willing to pay me and feed me and teach me to not be a worthless fuck at the same time!"
Government steps in and says, "nope. You gotta pay him $15/hr." Economist is like, "well, I can't afford that. Sucks to be blackestknight."
You go to McDonald's instead and they don't have any job openings because they've replaced all of their unskilled labor with kiosks and robots.
You get hungry and you have $0.01 in your pocket, but unfortunately it won't buy anything because everybody with a job makes at least $15/hr and increased dollars without a proportional increase in supply (the real measure of wealth) will obviously drive the price of everything up because dollars have no inherent value.
You starve in the gutter, because the baker has to charge $5 for a loaf of bread because he has to pay for labor a $15 minimum wage, the delivery company that brought him his flour and sugar and yeast had to charge a $15 minimum wage, the farmers had to pay everyone a $15 minimum wage, and you can't even afford a paltry $5 because you don't have a fucking job and nobody will help you because you're a worthless idiot.
Oh, but wait, the government steps in and invents WIC and other forms of welfare and you're saved! But you're a man, so you don't get any of that shit, so you die anyway.
The Internet laughs at your self-inflicted misfortune.
The end.
My story is that I have skills developed over a lifetime that are worth paying for, so I get paid for them. I have no reason to ask for less money. However, if I were 12-14-16 years old or an ignoramus like yourself, I'd have sat and watched and listened to and learned from an expert in my field for $0.01/hr with joy. In fact, I often did, except for $0/hr because they couldn't legally hire me for what I was actually worth, because of minimum wage laws.
The end.
Unpaid interships are available and don't count as a job under minimum wage laws. Still, you'd be dumb to accept such an offer, even while not being too good at the job, you're still bringing value to his company. Learning on the job is how most people learned through history. The production value you bring in is worth something, stop selling yourself short.
The Internet laughs at your concept of unpaid interships since they exist. Of course, you'd know if you weren't an idiot, but that's beyond your skill and OPs.