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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by tomreece on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:46PM (#10999821)
Indeed it is. Haven't I accrued debt, worked hard, and earned the right to be in a job I should be happy at? I deserve that. So do you and so does every body else.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by jkereako on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:18PM (#10999971)
Happiness is not a right. This kind of thinking will perpetuate your misery.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by Apocryphon on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:09PM (#11000151)
It's enshrined in the American Constitution.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by krapp on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:30PM (#11000205)
The Declaration of Independence declares a natural right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness[0]." Happiness itself is not enshrined as a right, certainly not by the Constitution[1].

[0] http://www.founding.com/the_declaration_of_i/pageID.2423/def...

[1] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-110hdoc50/pdf/CDOC-110hdo...

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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by leshow on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:37PM (#11000219)
PURSUIT of happiness.

try going to the police and saying your right to happiness has been thwarted by the company paying your salary... see how far that gets you

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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by grillvogel on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:53PM (#10999855)
no one deserves anything
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by moron4hire on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:56PM (#10999871)
Everyone deserves everything. We live in a society that is capable of creating a post-scarcity economy (and in many cases, such as media and software, has) yet is putting itself through ever more convoluted contortions to make sure poor people don't get to have anything. Eff. That. Noise. Work is not a moral imperative.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by krapp on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:21PM (#10999981)
>We live in a society that is capable of creating a post-scarcity economy (and in many cases, such as media and software, has)

Media and software are not examples of post-scarcity economy. They require hardware, which requires infrastructure, which runs on the expenditure of fuel and calories, and is built oftentimes with slave labor. The music needs to be composed, the movies need to be filmed, the games need to be designed. Storage media needs to be replaced. Programmers need to be educated generation after generation, and then everything rewritten in new languages when no one cares about the old ones. Factories need to keep building new models and old models keep filling landfills. The digital world is very much tied to scarcity of resources. Every bit flipped contributes to the inevitable heat death of the universe.

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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by solipsism on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:07PM (#10999931)
If one of our descendants happens to be born into a society that grants him/her the _entitlement_ to happiness, that person will be very lucky indeed. We haven't been born into such a society, however.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by Apocryphon on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:10PM (#11000152)
We're on the threshold of one. We should start living and working that way.
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Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me by leshow on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:36PM (#11000216)
no we aren't, happiness is to nebulous to just be 'solved'
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