[mod]

> Forcing people to show up to work under these conditions is murder.

Nobody can be forced to show up, and no, that's not murder.

> A starting point would be...

Amazon has a page listing their pretty thorough adjustments for health & safety: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/how-amazon-priorit...

[kevingadd]

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

[aaomidi]

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?

[jshevek]

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

[aaomidi]

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.

[jshevek]

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.