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What is the general meaning of "starve" here?
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Here starve means that you feel a great need or desire for something (for job in your case).
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Here starve means that you feel a great need or desire for something (for job in your case).
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I think it means just that - you find something to do which you love, or you starve because you cannot find a suitable job so are not paid enough. It's not a particularly well expressed sentence.
"...with that intelligence you can choose to find a job which you love or to starve, ...."