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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by Dylan16807 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:13PM (#22649622)
> I'm gonna go ahead and guess that there is no war

That's not really right, because that implies that other people are using the word wrong. It's more that it's a word with a lot of uses, and you got stuck on one of them.

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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by jacobwilliamroy on Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:33AM (#22652752)
They are using it wrong. I think when op said "war" op meant "public health policy" which is really far away from war. It's actually the complete opposite thing.
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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:50AM (#22653031)
They're not using it wrong.

Merriam-Webster, definition 2:

  2a: a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism
  b: a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a 
  particular end
  a class war
  a war against disease
Note that last line. The use here is so extremely valid that it's an example in the dictionary!
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