People have. Many times. Sachs, the WHO, the Copenhagen Consensus, Nobel laureates. They all stalled for the same reason: no self-sustaining financial mechanism. The math was never the missing piece. The engine was.
You are the entire universe from the only perspective you will ever have. The universe is telling itself it is too small to matter. That is the delusion.
How much money you personally lose if civilization continues optimizing for murder instead of medicine, and what happens to your bank account if it stops. Includes a calculator for the selfishly rational.
Two timelines diverge from this moment. One ends in extinction, the other in transcendence. The only difference is a 1% budget reallocation.
A planet had every tool needed to cure disease and chose to build weapons instead. They went extinct. Their last words were 'but the economy.' This is a bedtime story for civilizations that can't do math.
On one planet, citizens allocate the budget directly, lobbyists don't exist, and disease was eradicated 4,000 years ago. It uses the same technology you have. The difference is they pointed it at biology instead of each other.
Fun facts for those reasonably skeptical of spending 1% more on helping sick people than killing them.
A sourced cost-benefit analysis of redirecting 1% of military spending to clinical trials: disease queue, GDP growth channels, per-capita returns, and biotech margin advantage.
A sponsor-facing memo for institutions considering whether to host the first 90-day Earth Optimization Prize pilot. The host role is to convene, publish, seed, and measure without becoming the mechanism's sovereign.
A grant proposal template for funding a coordinator that aggregates existing nonprofit Google Ad Grants, iframe embeds, and communication channels into the largest public referendum on disease eradication ever conducted. Funding tiers scale from $100K Year 1 to $50M by Year 5. Per-voter cost-effectiveness beats every existing global health intervention by orders of magnitude.