UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by RijilV on Sunday March 01, 2020 @04:19PM (#22459426)

Except, in the case of big tech, Internships pay six figures.
There are other perks of being a grad student than just the pay though...

: sure, the internships aren’t typically a year long, but if you do the math for what’s paid for their duration it’s an incredible amount if it did last a year.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by saagarjha on Sunday March 01, 2020 @08:47PM (#22460887)

Of course, not everyone can work in big tech.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by geodel on Sunday March 01, 2020 @11:14PM (#22461610)

Then what's stopping unpaid interns to take big tech internship?

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by TeMPOraL on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:46AM (#22462481)

Nothing, except that:

a) not everyone who figured out higher education is a racket wants to do 180 degree career turn

b) many people would like to make their future in something else than easy code monkeying money

If everyone goes to write NoSQL serverless CRUD for adtech, who will be left to do research or something actually materially productive in the economy?

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by phaus on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:12AM (#22462345)

For one thing most tech internships want you to contribute to the business. Unpaid internships that involve doing real work are illegal in many industries/locations.

In some places if you have an unpaid tech internship, everything you do has to be an artificial training exercise for the sole benefit of the students.

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