Well, it would seem that if we close down all the non-essential businesses, and the economy immediately hemmorhages 10s of millions of jobs, that most of what w

Well, it would seem that if we close down all the non-essential businesses, and the economy immediately hemmorhages 10s of millions of jobs, that most of what we're doing isn't essential. In some bizarre twist of fate, an enviable hegemonic position has been squandered: where Americans could have cemented their dominance by doing likely anything else, we instead de-industrialized ourselves into a service-based economy specializing in shuffling the same 300$ around between 300 million people while nose-diving off a cliff the second the invisible hand comes knocking.