Elon Musk: “The actual national debt is like double what people think it…”

“Have you ever looked at the debt clock? Yes. Okay. There's our present day debt, but then there's our future obligations. So when you look at the future obligations of Social Security, The actual national debt is like double what people think it is because of the future obligations. So basically, people are living way longer than expected and there are fewer babies being born. So you have more people who are retired and live for a long time and get retirement payments.” (1:02:50–1:02:59)

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