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When he proposed that you have a right to a job, do you really think he meant that you had a right to a job as brain surgeon when you are not qualified?
No I don't. But you have a right to a job according to him, whatever the qualifications. If your qualifications or effort are so low that you can't make a good bugger flipper, you still have "a right to a job", and not just a job but a job that pays enough for decent housing, food, entertainment, etc.
So unless your qualified enough (either currently, or you see yourself as being able to gain these qualifications) for a really high paying and/or interesting job, your incentive to put in a lot of effort, or work to increase your qualifications.
I'm not sure he ever really believed there should really should be such a legal right. I suspect he was just demagoguing the issue. But either he was very ignorant about economics, or he was foolish in more general terms, or he was demagoguing the issue, or some combination of the three. |
