Interestingly, it's comments like yours that cause me to lose faith in the quality of conversation at Hacker News.
Basically Godwin'ing to "slavery" when the prior poster clearly talked about free will and choice is intellectual laziness.
That we went from "I have no job at all and am unemployable" to "it appears I can be exploited for my labor at a rate that doesn't allow me to escape poverty, but may allow me to at least not starve to death" is not defensible or desirable.
That you see it as acceptable or a reflection of a legitimate "choice" moreso reflects on your inexperience with or inability to adequately reason about the reality of sincere poverty, not reality.
You are the one whose confrontational and disrespectful manner of conversing impedes legitimate discourse. The person lowering the quality of HN discussion is you.
Can you address the first two paragraphs originally posted? You were upset with the third and opted to sidestep confronting the argument.