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To any team of students considering applying for this, please let me suggest an alternative:

Don't waste your time working for the kind of company that would choose to hire through such a program.

Instead, build something together that you think would make a positive difference in the world.

Don't squander your lives selling advertisements or developing weapons or "increasing the efficiency of the markets". Don't sell out. Do something meaningful, damn it.

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> Don't waste your time working for the kind of company that would choose to hire through such a program.

Why are you so confident you know the labor market? Why are the companies that might considering hiring this inherently be exploiting the team?

I'd like to think a handful of people would be able to spot a griftshop better than an individual and this reads to me like a variant of collective bargaining.

> Instead, build something together that you think would make a positive difference in the world.

The types of new grads who have the social connections to meaningfully act on bright ideas...shouldn't.

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