How can the entertainment industry possibly be deemed "essential?"

Entertainment helps people relax refreshing their mind, this is needed.

 

Nope there's lots of ordinary people working in the industry. Nothing special about them at all. It's a massive industry in a city like Los Angeles which relies in large part on their tax revenue to cover many basic municipal services.

The idea that the entertainment industry is "special" is a manufactured grievance that a lot of people who haven't been within a country mile of a film or TV set like to vent as a meme.

I bought a camera tripod a while back which had the name of a now famous movie director Dymo-taped on it (I'd never heard of him at the time.) Later I got to meet him in a completely different context and told him about it. He remembered pawning it while in film school to pay for something he needed to finish a production project.

Nice guy. Not special, just talented and tenacious.

Super rich now too!

 

I refer you to my previous post #12

 

Sorry, sports are the cure for covid as long as there's football everything is okay.

I'd say that's essential.

 

Well you have heard about all the problems the Republican snowflakes have been having with depression and drugs.
They cheer you up.

 

My lord .. are you actually saying you are so lacking in both imagination and experience, that you think 'paid entertainment' is the only kind of fun to be had?

Gosh I feel bad for you. That's a sad life

 

There are enough of those to last an eternity. We didn't need to keep making more.

 

Entertainment is in the eye of the beholder. Film and tv is one TINY example of 'entertainment'.

 

What problems with depression and drugs?

 

And what's with the masturbation reference?

 

It's either essential or it's not. I don't know what you mean by "essential in absolute terms."

 

Calling the entertainment industry "special" as @ToddWB did, isn't calling every INDIVIDUAL who works in the industry "special", it's calling the INDUSTRY special. The industry wouldn't be able to exist without the "ordinary people", therefore they are given an exemption.

Haven't you contradicted yourself here? Haven't you explained EXACTLY why it's special by saying, "it's a massive industry in a city like Los Angeles which relies in large part on their tax revenue to cover many basic municipal services?"

 

What's wrong with the entertainment which was produced before COVID?

 

Sometimes people use the word "special" as a pejorative and you know it.

Don't be obtuse, it's a very "special" way to act.

In the case of a city like Los Angeles, you could substitute the words important, unique or, from a financial standpoint, vital because it employs tens of thousands of people who, in turn, spend their money in tens of thousands of ways. In that sense it is also essential because without it the city would collapse.

That's not to mention connected industries like commercial and domestic display technologies, audio equipment, acoustic and visual engineering software, hard content, streamed content et al.

In that sense, the industry is truly essential as the loss of it could have ramifications for millions of workers around the world.

Come to think of it, petroleum workers have been classed as essential. What's so special about them?

According to your logic we could all just sit around, in the dark eating food that's already been canned and, all politics being local, since we have year round 70 degree weather we don't even really need heating or gas for our cars since all those "special" industry people don't need to be going to work?

We can sit around watching "Bridge over the River Kwai" and "Carry On Up The Khyber" on our solar powered devices.

 

Thanks for making my point for me.

 

Humans can exist on a diet of water, rice and peas so we could, theoretically shut down all the other food producing industries. No more meat, no more fish, seafood or dairy products. No more wine, no more beer. That's what "essential in absolute terms" means.

All those farmers, fishermen, brewers and vintners can sit at home watching re-runs on their crank powered TVs. They're not "essential".

Do you know what I mean now?

 

I'm still not seeing why having new entertainment content justifies the entertainment industry getting an exemption.

 

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The point remains - nobody was calling the "ordinary people" "special."

 

You claimed ignorance of the meaning of the phrase:

"essential in absolute terms".

I gave you a definition.

You were having trouble grasping its meaning.

Do you grasp it now?

 

Ordinary people make up the bulk of the entertainment industry.

Calling the industry "special" is calling them "special".

Unless you'd like to break it down a little and catalog precisely whom you deem to be "special" and whom you do not?

 

The "special" ones are the actors, producers, directors and executives.

 

Yes, but I'm still not seeing why having new entertainment content justifies the entertainment industry getting an exemption.

 

https://deadline.com/2020/11/entert...in-newsoms-new-stay-at-home-order-1234619285/

Well I guess the film crews have to eat, right?

ABC sucks?

So you were happy to take my word for the eBay thing, but not this?

I didn't assume anything. I thought that there was a chance that the media which you are informed by includes outlets other than biased leftist garbage such as CNN and MSNBC, which reports on stories such as this one.

So you can assume things, but I can't?

 

No industries were shut down. A lot of small businesses were shut down. They didn't have the power or money to fight it and it made government appear like it was actually fighting a virus. Essential has nothing to do with anything. It is just a term describing busiinesses that have enough power or money to fight hard.