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  31. <LI><em>From</em>: Blanc Weber &lt;<A HREF="mailto:blancw@microsoft.com">blancw@microsoft.com</A>&gt;</LI>
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  41. From: Jamie Lawrence:
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  43. "Well, I guess we concieve of the meaning of the phrase "'right' to a job"
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  44. somewhat differently. I see it as meaning everyone has the oppurtunity to
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  45. earn a living."
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  47. Except that you didn't say that, you said 'right to a job'.  To me that 
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  48. means that there is a job in existence to which I have a right, or that 
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  49. one should be created for me so that I may be the beneficiary of it.
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  51. "I also don't know that I think my job has
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  52. anything to do with my purpose in life- If someone can find that to be the
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  53. case, great, but otherwise it is just a way to stay alive while they are
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  54. looking for the real thing, so to speak."
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  56. Your basic purpose in life could be simply to maintain it while you or 
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  57. someone else figures out what it's for.  Maintaining a life requires 
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  58. work, which is what a job is and does.  The reference to a 'right' to a 
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  59. job is usually intended to mean that it should be provided, not just 
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  60. that the opportunity should exist.  But in fact, no one is required to 
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  61. maintain another's particular existence; especially if they impress as 
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  62. being a purposeless being with no particular reason for being assisted 
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  63. in the maintenance of their purposeless life (i.e. there being no 
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  64. reason to be even *moved* to provide them with a job).
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  66. It has been pointed out in my readings, that the Constitution makes a 
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  67. case for the *pursuit* of one's interest, to emphasize that it should 
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  68. not be hampered or prevented, but that it makes no case for the 
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  69. provision of that particular thing which one would pursue (like a house 
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  70. or a job).
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  72. "I suppose I look at the alternative- that people don't have the right to
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  73. earn a living, that doing so is a priviledge. How easy is it to get by
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  74. without a job in this country? It can be done, but it sucks."
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  76. People don't really have a right to do anything, yet they have the 
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  77. given means and a whole world &amp; beyond, with which to do most of what 
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  78. they can imagine or anything they can manage.  It's easy, when you know how.
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  80. Blanc
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