This enormous. Era of progress that I think we take for granted. I'm 64. From the time I was born in 1961. Over the course of six decades. In the aggregate, the world became drastically wealthier, drastically better educated, significantly more peaceful. Infant mortality plunged. Extreme poverty plunged. People got healthier, people got more tolerant. People. Took advantage of opportunities that they had never imagined before. And that happened not just here, but globally. And we underwrote that system. (28:59–29:17)
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