A fantastic example of why businesses should not be required to pay certain amounts to its workers

http://www.slate.com/articles/busine...en_school.html

If all internships were paid, the economy would suffer because experience and production would decrease. The answer is deregulating this aspect of business and subsidizing incomes through grants and/or loans. The concept doesn't make intuitive sense to a lot of people, but it works very well for the economy and society at large. It's basically a pure form of competition that finds who should be where and brings out the best, while not letting anybody go impoverished and keeping costs low