Your destructive economy (military + cybercrime) is 12-15% of GDP and growing faster than your actual economy. The Soviet Union collapsed at 15-18%. You have about 15 years. Choose wisely.
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Oxford tested COVID treatments for $500/patient and saved a million lives in 100 days. The NIH spent $1.6B and completed zero trials in four years. Only 3.3% of its budget tests cures.
The full cost of war: $2.7T military + $2.4T dead people + $1.9T blown-up buildings + $3.7T in lost growth = $11.4T/year. That's 12.7% of global GDP. The Pentagon can't find $2.5T of its own stuff.
Disease kills 130,000 people daily and costs $397T/year—more than global GDP. You spend 40x more on bombs than medicine. Your body is a machine. Fix it.
A manual for ending war and disease using financial incentives, pragmatic trials, and the radical assumption that humans respond to money. Spoiler: they do. 10.7 billion lives at stake.
What if we took 1% of global military spending ($27.2B/year) and used it to actually save lives? 10.7 billion deaths averted. The maths checks out. The species does not.
The FDA's efficacy testing kills 3,070 people for every 1 it saves. 102 million dead since 1962. That's 17 Holocausts, but with better paperwork.
6,650 diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments. Pragmatic trials cost $929 vs $41,000. Scale them up and you get $0.84 per DALY. That's cheaper than a Mars bar. Why haven't we done this?
Previous treaties cost $25-50M to get signatures. Even at 5% success probability, a 1% health treaty is 30,000x more cost-effective than anti-malaria bed nets. The downside is a yacht. The upside is no more disease.
Governments claim $68B on "medical research" but only $4.5B goes to clinical trials—56 cents per human. That's a 604:1 military-to-cure ratio. We spend more on pet food than on not dying.