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More it puts you out of a business you have a bad business model. i've been doing this 19 years. i've gone from three employees to 28 employees. i'm proud of that. >> john: when i was a kid you would go to a movie theater and there would be an usher. no more people washing windows at gas station because of the minimum wage? >> absolutely. i remember when i was a kid. there was a man that loved fox theater and he would stand there and shine a light on your ticket and take you down to the chair and he loved movies. he was retired. he wanted to do something. >> john: can't do it anymore. >> it's ...

He says you can't do it. it's absolutely ridiculous. >> john: these are kids that might have invented is something cool and they can't get the opportunity. >> if mr. cuban, he should pay his interns. if he did pay them they can be creative and on to exercise great things. >> john: but these kids want to work for nothing for the experience. >> i'm paid internships favor wealthier kids with families that have connections. a. >> john: i look at this audience and they look pretty prosperous to me. >> if your family makes $500,000 a year maybe they can have son and daughter work in new york city an...

Decent lives. >> specifically minimum wage side, it's a learning wage. it's an entry level wage. it's not making a living it's kids going high school. they live at hole. there are other support systems, show up on time. do the other basic things to have a job. now it's illegal. >> and academic setting a dollar for entry levels. >> john: you notice more and more bureaucratic demand. >> absolutely. if you credit with the employer in exchange for this work you are going offer me academic credit. that is fine. i think if the contract with the employer in exchange for this experience, i won't be pa...

Go away and come back at the end of your shift. what i learned from that, i don't want to work in the public sector. >> john: whatever the job they learned just by working. >> the work ethic now. it taught me what hard work is. i worked every other job in the restaurant business and moved on to the construction business and somehow i thought let's try this radio and tv thing. >> even if the job would be illegal today. >> i was 13 years old and i went to work at tyson's drugstore. you are not supposed to drive at 13. at the time 14 and a half in mississippi you could get your driver's license. ...

Be a grownup young professional. if we force companies --. >> john: it's hurting, he says it's hurting the paid workers? >> i don't see how that is possible. a lot of interns do the sort of work that is motd what a full time employee would do but other things. so they aren't in lieu of a full time employee. >> john: i recently interviewed a billionaire and he is upset about the labor department crackdown. mark cuban he is not allowed to give unpaid work to college students. >> i get e-mails every day, 5-20 more, it would be my dream job to intern to work for the dallas mavericks unpaid. i went...