Amazon certainly doesn't shy away from diagrams for right time and place. A good example being Bezos' famous napkin diagram. https://i.imgur.com/asNNqOn.jpg
At least they are born in America, instead of some third world country. In the eyes of an immigrant like me, top 80% have no one else to blame but themselves.
I get the sense that you have your perspective in mind much more than your employee's perspective, if you think new-grads should work for you for free, just because you have this "whimsical" idea, and empty promise of learning experience. The risk and gain on each side is very far from fair, especially if the company is not a well established one.
Are the companies that new in a such tough and risky situation the usual ones hiring interns? I was under the impression companies like that would just want few core highly efficient workers.