The Right to be Unhappy

'We prefer to do things comfortably.'

'But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.'

'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.

'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.

~Aldous Huxley
Brave New World

Obviously we all give up certain freedoms in order to function as a society, but where do we draw the line? For example, if you knew that everyone would have a job and money - no welfare, no homeless, no starvation - would you give up your right to choose your own career/job. Would you let the government choose everyone's job for them to stop unemployment?