On this episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: 
 

Hitting the wall, and then climbing the wall, at Amazon
The state of unpaid internships
If a Yale commencement speech can change the way we think about our rat-race economy?

 
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