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

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.

>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.

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.

Ah yes because they're not being held at gunpoint it's not forced.

Do you really have a very literal definition of forced? No nuance or anything?

The nuanced approach is to reject extremist characterizations, not embrace them.

Yeah unfortunately you're in the wrong here.

There are multiple levels of forced. It's not an on and off switch, as much as people make it out to be.

In what way am I in the wrong? I did not claim and do not believe that there is only one level of 'forced'. No one here is making it out to be that way.

Edit: Just because there is a range of accepted meanings for the word 'forced' doesn't mean that all uses of the word 'forced' are correct. Even with the most low key interpretations of the word 'forced', I don't think that this is in any way the correct word for this situation.