Two quick questions.

[Gaexion Ramza Beoulve]

Do you believe in the distinction between essential and non-essential worker?

Why do non-essential workers deserve to be paid more than essential?

[Puupi]

What a jump from question #1 to #2.

[Belize]

Do you believe in the distinction between essential and non-essential worker?

Yes, but with more than 2 categories. Essential can be broken down in a lot of subcategories.

Why do non-essential workers deserve to be paid more than essential?

Because of supply and demand of certain skills. Electrical engineers that design HiFi speakers aren't exactly essentials, but there's so few of them, and such a high demand for their skills that naturally they get paid more.

[Shadowferal]

Hedge fund manager...fucking useless in an emergency. But get paid too well for nothing.

Nurses overworked and underpaid for what they do now. On a more normal timeframe a registered nurse isn't paid too badly

[Temp name]

Do you believe in the distinction between essential and non-essential worker?

Yes. Society can't function without transport of goods, or people to sell you those goods for instance. But society can work just fine without game developers, at least for a while.

Why do non-essential workers deserve to be paid more than essential?

Depends on the job they do. Retail work is very low-skill and doctors are very high-skill. Both are essential, but make vastly different amounts of money.

Should certain people be paid more than they are? Yes. Should certain people be paid less? Probably. Do all essential workers need to be paid more? Not where I live at least.

[Hellobolis]

the vast majority of the essential jobs don't require advanced skills, so while the job is essential, the worker isn't.

morally i do think those people should be paid a good wage, but economically it just doesn't work that way without government interventions like minimum wage.

[Sorensen]

No work is essential, sorry people.

[Aurgjelme]

Join a union, strike if you must and demand your workers rights.
It has done wonders for the workers in Scandinavia.

[Puupi]

Join a union, strike if you must and demand your workers rights.
It has done wonders for the workers in Scandinavia.

A country of fishermen turned into millionaires because they found oil.

Oh you Norwegians...

[Aurgjelme]

A country of fishermen turned into millionaires because they found oil.

Oh you Norwegians...

While oil is unrelated to a union that has been here since the 1800's...what is your point?
Suddenly discovering a valuable resource is not a guarantee for a egalitarian society.
And the money earned from oil is not directly used, but put in a pension fund for future generations, where we
can use a maximum of 2,7% of its value to inject into the yearly state budget.

[Calfredd]

No work is essential, sorry people.

Medical services.

[Temp name]

No work is essential, sorry people.

Plenty of work is essential for society to function as it does right now.

Even ignoring that, and going back to the stone age, then (pretty much) everyone needed to hunt and gather, which is also work.

[Dezerte]

While I may in some instances feel/believe that essential work should be paid more, our economy operates under the supply & demand idea.

[Ghostpanther]

No work is essential, sorry people.

This isn't in the least true. Without the police for example, chaos would run rampant in the streets. There was a increase in crimes in NYC just from the lock downs. If there were no police around?

And besides public health and security concerns, national security is also very essential.

[ErrandRunner]

Any job can be viewed as essential or non-essential depending on the context. Some jobs are good for the economy, which bank-roles jobs like doctors, nurses and paramedics etc.