Elon Musk: “What happens over time though, is government keeps growing…”

“The government is essentially the, you know, the football league, like the referee, the, you know, making sure that there's fair play, that, like I said, that the rules are sensible and allowing the players on the field to play the game. And What happens over time though, is government keeps growing and at a certain point you have more referees than players on the field and then the game is not good. You do need referees. I'm not saying you don't need referees, but you don't want the referees to outnumber the players. That would be silly, but that's often what happens.” (24:53–25:03)

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