I agree with you, but in this case, the standards are necessary. Taking a job that just lands me right back in an unsustainable situation would be worse than go

I agree with you, but in this case, the standards are necessary. Taking a job that just lands me right back in an unsustainable situation would be worse than going longer and longer with no job. Eventually, I agree it must hit a point where I'm basically barely at subsistence level and any marginal gains are better than none (even if the marginal gains come with e.g. mental health costs of dealing with intolerable employers or something). Right now the situation is urgent, but not so urgent as to merit throwing out all possibility of actually finding a healthy outcome instead of a merely desperate one.