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sscaryterrytoday at 7:37 AM1 replyview on HN

> not "pay to stay alive"

Focus on this part. (Edit: I consider the choice of words either clumsy or insensitive)


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317070today at 8:09 AM

Because without an income people tend to not live for very long and that idea makes people uncomfortable? I had not considered that.

"Wage to live on" is perhaps a more euphonic translation then.