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Originally Posted by tompe
Sine this misunderstanding is common. No, everyone does not have a right to earn a living doing whatever they want. I do not have a right to earn a living doing nothing for example. So there is no right to earn a living by writing books.
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Since when?
First off,
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Originally Posted by tompe
...doing whatever they want...
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Your words, not mine. Don't confuse capitalizing on a legitimate skill with entitlement.
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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not have a right to earn a living doing nothing for example.
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"Earning" implies doing "something". I'm not playing word-games; if you're a day-trader and the only "work" you do is get online to check how much interest your investments have made, it's your money "earning" the interest thereby enabling you to lounge around watching TV all day. However, it is still your knowledge which enabled you to invest the money where it would gve you the biggest return. In the extreme, if you want to grow your own food and generate your own heat/electricity, you absolutely have every right to do so.
In order to survive in civilized society, one must earn a living. A goal for any remotely-forward-thinking individual is to earn that living doing what one is good at and enjoys doing; if that is taken away, there would be no point to survival other than satisfying some self-preservation instinct.