Blaine Coleman
1 min readApr 19, 2020

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Well said, Joe. And the “right to pursue happiness” was first written as the “right to pursue money”- I suppose that, at the time, having money was the only way to survive so the right to pursue money was considered the only way to be happy. I mean, no one wants to starve to death. The final draft changed “money” to “happiness”. Yet it soon became the right to pursue money, by any means possible, no matter the cost to anyone else.

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Blaine Coleman
Blaine Coleman

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Rel. Studies, Creative Writing… Social liberal/fiscal conservative, occasional writer- profile pic- 6-yr-old coal minor 1910-flow with the Tao, all will be well

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