In fact, one could argue that unpaid internships are designed to favor the offspring of the upperclass. An internship, states Charles Murray in a New York Times Op-Ed, “amounts to career assistance for …Stop Working for Free: How Unpaid Internships Exploit Labor, Divide Classes, and Rig the Economy8516Just EliseTim SylvesterFollowJul 25, 2017 · 1 min readBecause… they are.