Employment positions designed or structured such that they cannot provide a viable livelihood, regardless of hours worked or effort expended. Starvation jobs are the logical complement to starvation wages—positions that exist not to support workers but to extract maximum value while returning minimum sustenance. They include gig economy "opportunities" that pay below minimum wage after expenses, retail positions with intentionally limited hours to avoid benefits, contract work with no guaranteed income, and any job where full-time employment still means poverty. Starvation jobs are the primary occupation of the hyperslave class—work that takes everything and returns nothing but the chance to keep working.
Example: "He had three Starvation Jobs—delivering food, driving for a rideshare, and overnight stock—and still couldn't afford an apartment. Not unemployment, but its opposite: employment so total and so insufficient that it became its own kind of poverty."
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