Free labour in the First World

Forget about cheap foreign labour when you can get free labour in your own home! That’s right, First World dwellers, you hear me. From the streets of London to the whole EU continent, even up to the Hollywood hills in the USA, why pay cheap when you can get it for FREE? These free labourers are called interns, and if you have not made use of them, you should! You only need to pay for their lunches and transport, and in some cases, non at all! They are young, smart and degree-certified from a credited university in the First World.

What’s more, they are willing to clock in the full hours just like a fully-paid professional (without the min. wage, of course), and if that is not enough, you can also get them to serve you coffee in between.

Why?

Because they are dying to for a job. They thirst for it. Give them countless of empty promises of a full-time position, and they are sure to stick around longer. Perhaps you can even coax them to work overtime, all without pay! Isn’t that fantastic news for all you exploitative bosses out there who are unashamed to fatten your profits while these little minions can simply starve for all you care!

And if this is not enough to make you sick, I don’t know what else can. Even cheap, unqualified foreign labour gets paid, but not fresh graduates in the First World nations. Graduate Fog, a UK-based website dedicated to the cause of the youths while shaming companies that benefit from unpaid internships, has religiously updated any happenings regarding youth employment and internships.

I personally wished I knew all the good advice much earlier in my fledgling years rather than now. Honestly, some of the repercussions from my previous experiences of exploitation can still take an emotional toil on me from time to time even after all these years, and I am too ashamed and angry to name them as references. Waste of my potential, time, money and energy. Not to mention that their names are not worth mentioning in the first place, so no free publicity for them by me.

And why these sick politicians legalise exploitation in the guise of “free internship” for a reason so obvious that is non other to please those fat elites so that they can retain their attractive tax contributions.

Just recently, I was updated by friends that some of them were still doing internships on end after graduating 4 years ago! Studying masters was a way of escape from the dreadful unemployment rather than for knowledge sake. How much time can young people afford to waste?? And as they get older and still out of a job, they will more likely be pushed away as potentials when the next batch of fresh youths graduate each year. Job centres are getting over-crowded and depressing for many who do not get a single call from them.

Gone are the notions that exploitation only happens in the Third World. We are seeing countless of talented, smart young people working for nothing in bright day light, and still pretend that its alright. How much can we afford to stamp out their morals and brainwash their conscience?

It’s about time we say NO!