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But the current crisis might pose the question of whether the populist view of antitrust – limiting the size of firms because of the excessive influence they may
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– has some merit.
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And like any new technology, it's really in humanity's hands to
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it for the betterment of mankind or not.
That's lifetimes of women dealing with men who assume they know better for us than we know for ourselves, being the property of husbands, landowners, and having old, white men tell us the fate of our lady parts; lifetimes of having our bodies used for love and objects of desire, instead of bodies that we get to
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and use as we choose; lifetimes of knowing that whether we play by their rules or not, we still have to tolerate harassment, assault and even worse; lifetimes of our bodies being used as property that can be hit and hurt, manipulated and moved and like objects that are not deserving of respect; lifetimes of not being able to express the anger of our bodies.
So I had to
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my paralyzed arm like a stump and cover the numbers as I went along and pushed them, so that as I would come back to normal reality, I'd be able to tell, "Yes, I've already dialed that number."
Well, inspired by the sentences, I decided to
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the paintbrush.
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