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Every business everywhere is using some off-base construed logic to classify their employees as "essential." Even Gamestop in the US wanted to be considered "essential."

I develop software and systems in an almost pure R&D environment and all of my current project work is, as far as citizens in this country are concerned, non-essential, yet my employer blasts almost daily emails that play semantic gymnastics as more and more lockdown requirements were/are issued by states and municipalities that (surprise) are construed by management that everyone is "essential" through a long drawn out and highly questionable argument.

It's comical to watch greed try and define essential because for greedy behavior: money is essential. They'll wiggle around definitions and policies all day as much as they can to limit shutting down their revenue streams.




On the flip side, in some places the gov't has made arbitrary choices as to what constitutes essential, and it turns out that the definition of essential can vary considerably between individuals and different life situations.




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