[ksplicer]

> Would you also tell the chronically unemployed person that you being flooded with job offers all day means you're dying just like him, but in water instead of sand?

The analogy would be one person not getting any job offers while the other is only getting job offers with compenation that are too low to support their family.

[megadal]

The thing is, in the scenario you described, I am pretty sure the person getting no job offers would trade places with the person getting offers, but the reverse is obviously not true.

[godelski]

Which would you rather die of dehydration in? Desert or ocean?

I'm not sure why these are being treated as equally bad. To be one is clearly worse than the other, though both tremendously suck. You'd at least survive longer in the ocean, even if we ignored the higher availability of food.