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Because it's unethical. I've been in business for 10+ years but i never hired an intern because i don't find it fair to make someone work for less than minimum wage, and i don't have the structure required to really teach them anything. I have bad fundamentals and only ever learnt by doing, so having an intern while it may help me wouldn't really help them and that's not a deal i'm willing to make. Probably why i'm not super successful lol
That being said, i don't see any problem with making a GPU cry somewhere in California for my menial tasks. And it's tremendously effective too, for a hundred bucks a month i get a lot of shit done that would take me ages. I don't give it access to anything critical so it can't fuck my shit up and i come out on top as long as the tokens are subsidized by dumb VC money.