[mcphage]

> I don't think secretaries are essential.

I'm sorry you think the many people employed as secretaries should lose their jobs because you think their job is "unessential", but that attitude is patronizing and demeaning to the people who hold those positions. This world isn't about you, and you you have neither the right nor the authority to tell them how to live their lives.

[herbiv]

Maybe they should be given a choice to work or not, and not by threatening them with hunger or homelessness. Good luck trying to do that.

[TeMPOraL]

Then why not give that choice to everyone else as well? Most of us are working because we're being "threatened with hunger or homelessness". I think it's bad and as a civilization we're reaching the level when we could - and should - end that, but that is a completely orthogonal topic to whether or not secretaries have important jobs.