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If you look at life expectancy graphs, they mostly correlate with GDP per person.

You can't really see the invention of antibiotics clearly in the curves.

The way I think of it is that of course penicillin increased life spans, but the discovery and industrialization of it was highly correlated with rising GDP.



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