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> a company that is doing serious core refactoring/redevelopment on the back of an underpaid "intern" is probably exploiting that labor in an unfair way

> Handing out throwaway projects like you posit is an easy trip to a class action suit.

So if an intern shouldn't do work on the core product but also shouldn't do throwaway projects, what do you suggest an intern should do? What do you consider an "underpaid" intern? Would you consider 75% salary of campus new hire as underpaid?