Elon Musk: “It used to be that, you know, people would be dropping dead…”

“Because if you, if you read a lot of history you're like, wow, there's a lot of misery back then, you know. I mean, It used to be that, you know, people would be dropping dead of the plague all the time. you know, par for the course, you know, just be like a good year. Back in the day would be like, not that many people died of the plague or starvation or being killed by another tribe.” (1:02:08–1:02:12)

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