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Unpaid time off is forcing low-income workers to show up unless they want to starve.

• jshevek 7y ago
  By starve do you mean "go hungry", or "eat less", or "starve to death"? Edit: I find "starve" to be a hyperbolic and emotionally manipulative choice of words, but I don't want to assume the worst. Maybe you have good reason to use this term?
  • bl0b 7y ago
    Not having enough money to survive isn't a made up thing. However you want to define it, people need to make ends meet including right now.
    • jshevek 7y ago
      >Not having enough money to survive isn't a made up thing. No one has suggested that anything here is a 'made up thing', are you creating strawmen? >However you want to define it, people need to make ends meet including right now. I'm interested in understanding what the GP's point was. I don't get to definitely choose arbitrary definitions and interpretations for them. The dictionary and accepted usage offers a range of interpretations.
      • bl0b 7y ago
        Apologies.. your comment sure read a lot like 'if starve really means eat less, maybe they should just suck it up and eat less.' I though it was obvious that GP's usage of the word 'starve' wasn't to be taken literally.