The recent New York Times article on unpaid internships highlights all the potential problems with companies “hiring” unpaid interns, including the problem all the politards in Washington and elsewhere have with the practice. While I agree that unpaid internships are a bad idea, my reasons have nothing to do with all the hibberty-jibberty nonsense (pdf) [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
the unintended consequences of having dumb people write healthcare legislation
A lovely article in the Boston Globe yesterday points out that, given a choice, people here in Massachusetts are not as intellectually-challenged as the politicians who write healthcare legislation. Color me encouraged. It seems that some not-very-public-spirited people would rather pay the (lower) monthly penalty, instead of a (much higher) monthly insurance premium, and then, [...]
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