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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.
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