Applying for an unpaid internship is not "making a contract".
I did not say that, nor did I imply that.
If companies have the right to make unpaid internships, we have the right to exploit them for doing so
False equivalence.
One is an honest offering you're not forced to take and exactly know what you're getting into. It's not like you work there for 3 months and at the end the employer surprises you and says: "This internship was unpaid btw haha"
Showing up to these interviews and FAKING to be interested is wrong and scammy. You can coat this with self righteousness all you want but at the end of the day the company is being honest and straight forward while you're bitter and scheming so you're in the wrong here.
You're making it sound like these people signed up for these internships, accepted them, then turned around and went "nah fuck you" after signing a contract and after the company had turned down everyone else.
I do not, you just need a strawman. Not at all what I said.
You're also making it sound like unpaid internships are just a purely neutral system
I did not. I evn said that sometimes they're mandatory from universities. Is misrepresenting what I said and making reaching assumptions about my position the best you can do?
people aren't pressured into them for bulshit "it will help your career" reasons, and everything corporations do involving them is moral and above board. That could not be further from the truth.
More strawmanning, more absolutes which I never claimed. Moving on...
Declining an offer after an interview is well within our rights, for a job or an internship, paid or unpaid, and we are not "unfairly" slighting a company for turning them down, even if we never intended to take the job in the first place.
Oh yes it is unfair when your intention never was to take the position. Not illegal, not absolutely reprehensible but trying to somehow wind your way out of that just being lying and dishonest is futile. Not everything that's in your right to do is a good thing to do.
Companies understand that they do interviews at their own risk and their own expense, and they should factor that in as part of their expansion (if a new job is required) or if they are replacing someone (usually for greedy reasons, like the old person left because they were being treated badly). We do not owe a company ANYTHING for being "generous" enough to offer us an interview and we owe them nothing for agreeing to participate in one - that's already factored in to the fact that our work will generally be more profitable for them than for us (otherwise they wouldn't have offered the job in the first place). It's simple economics which you don't seem to understand.
Intersting that the r*ddit cringe thread is where you say shit like this because that lingo and attitude could come straight from there. But dehumanising companies and treating every company like this mega corp on the scale of BP or Amazon is a fallacy your kind usually goes for.
Also about the "factoring in losses" kind of deal: Retailers also factor in shop lifting into the price of their products because they know they can't catch all shop lifters. That doesn't mean that shop lifting is a good act. Only difference here is that one is illegal, the other one not.
You're trying to very forcefully argue that you have the legal right to do what these redd*tors do but your problem is that I never once doubted that. I just say that it is not a good or moral thing to do but since you have a very immature view of "companies" you have a very easy time justifying that.
By your logic, if I walk into a store to look at some products, get into a chat with a cashier about a particular product, then leave for whatever reason without buying anything, then I have somehow unfairly wasted the stores time or somehow "owe them" a sale. That's not how any of this works.
Where did I say you owe anyone anything but maybe a little decency? I very explicitly said that the intentions here matter. Going in with the intention to never buy anything and just use the vendor's time to simulate a sales talk again isn't illegal and also isn't legally binding but it's just a form of exploiting the good will. The vendor doesn't know you're faking interest because most people don't.
Your position reminds me of the absolute worst that conservatism has to offer. Pro-corporate ass-licking hidden behind a thin veneer of "liberty" and "freedom". How does that boot taste?
You position reminds me of myself when I was 14. Self righteous and sticking it to the evil corporations until I worked at some local middle class companies and realised that there's actual humans working there, not some caricature of a suit wearing, cigar smoking tyrant.
May I ask what you do for a living?