No, the self-employed don’t simply work for “a brighter future” in the same way interns do. The self-employed are building equity (in addition the to the skills and experience that interns are limited to) in a way that interns simply aren’t.
Edit: I’ll also add that in order for unpaid interns in the private sector to be legal, the internship has to be for the benefit of the intern, and the employer should derive no immediate benefit from the internship. [quote=“nox, post:89, topic:32156”]
That’s great, but it is irrelevant to the points I raised.
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Pointing out that there’s no such thing as an objectively fair price for work isn’t irrelevant when you’ve repeatedly made the point that unions interfere with some sort of objective calculus that “X work is worth Y dollars,” and even talked about how unions interfere with the concept of “fair pay for work.”
Sure, you price work. But you determine the minimum that you can get the work done for, which is different than what the work is actually worth.
And corporations are unfair to the employed if they interfere with them from making as much as they bring to the company.
That’s fair enough, to the extent that there have historically been great disparities in bargaining power (though peasant revolts and slavery have not featured as prominently in the industrial sectors like manufacturing that are currently unionized). But despite that, its true that the tremendous size and market concentration/monopolistic tendencies of modern corporations adds a layer of bargaining inequality that has not historically existed.
