In response, critics cite the distinction between rights and merely desirable states of affairs. Not everything that is valuable and highly desired can be claimed as a right. The key point here seems to be that rights imply some responsibility on the part of others to provide what is claimed by the right. If every human has a right to a job, someone or some institution must have the responsibility to supply that job. By the same token, whoever is said to have the responsibility to provide a job must be in the position to be able to do so. A reasonable and standard philosophical observation is that “ought to imply can.” We can reasonably be said to have a responsibility only for those things that we can accomplish. But who should and who could supply jobs to every person?