The reason so many companies were able to get away with violating the law (because it really was so clear that Connecticut employment lawyer, Daniel Schwartz, described the ruling as «far from shocking,» on Twitter) was because interns didn't want to complain because they were afraid they wouldn't get any internships, which then lowers their chance of getting
a real job upon graduation.
Upon graduation with a degree in business management, Salomone had
job offers from IBM and Procter & Gamble, but the prospect of earning significantly more money at a young age in
real estate, compared to the starting salaries offered by the corporate behemoths, appealed to him.