I once chose to live in my car instead of taking a crappy job. With your kids, right? Oh yeah that's right -- you didn't have any. What is better? Having a j

I once chose to live in my car instead of taking a crappy job. With your kids, right? Oh yeah that's right -- you didn't have any. What is better? Having a job to take care of kids? Or telling the story to your kids about how you left a place because you didn't believe in what the company believed/ was doing/ etc? If your kids are taken away from you because you're living in a car and can't afford to feed and clothe them... then I guess you won't get too many chances to tell them stories about how principled you once were and how you stuck it to the man and all, way back when. Now will you? So please let me know if I am missing something. The whole point the above commenter was making was just because you felt you faced a similar(-ish) situation to those people once -- that doesn't mean that your boundary constraints (and emotional / psychological history) were the same, or even roughly comparable, to what they were facing. And so what felt like a "true choice" for you, may not have been a "true" (or even remotely viable) choice for these people. In other words, it all comes down to this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy