For some that has meant unemployment, lower wages or no wages at all.
What they do understand is that a strike could mean temporary unemployment and a suspension of paychecks.
No, it will mean much higher unemployment and much bigger poverty.
For part of the person concerned, this means permanent unemployment and persistent chronic poverty.
In such an environment, war meant employment, peace meant unemployment.
Against this background, the post-paternalist state is likely to mean higher unemployment and cash-starved public services.
Economic growth at this level would mean rising unemployment.
This means high unemployment and a lot of unnecessary misery in the world's richest country for the foreseeable future.
For many people, in other words, risk doesn't mean extra life - it means hardship, unemployment and even the possibility of early death.
Higher energy prices mean lower growth and higher unemployment, and they cost jobs.