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Coming up, internships.
Once the golden ticket to jumpstart a career, now seems like a financial burden disguised as opportunities.
Students work full days for zero pay, yet still owe rent.
Food and commute costs in cities far from home.
As unpaid positions spread from fashion and media to tech,
law and finance and a whole lot other industries, experience has become a luxury good.
So we follow the students buying their way into careers and ask who gets
left behind when opportunity itself has a price tag.
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Dragging suitcases across unfamiliar cities,
surviving on tight daily budgets, and taking on unpaid or sometimes underpaid internships.
More and more young people are finding themselves in a strange paradox,