The friendly front door of the Loving Takeover: a letter you send to the board of a company that pays lobbyists to keep your money in missiles instead of medicine. It opens with 'I love you,' and ends by making them richer. Anyone can send it; owning one share makes them answer.

A $200 shareholder love letter (one share of stock is legally sufficient under DGCL § 327) that turns the military lobby into the most effective advocate for pragmatic clinical trials on Earth. This page is everything you need to file it.

Eight contractor fact sheets for the master love letter: addresses, lobbying figures, SEC EDGAR links, filing forums.

Press release, journalist list, op-ed, social media kit, interview Q&A, and T+60d follow-up release. Print it and have it in hand on filing day.

A single printable one-page checklist for the human filing the shareholder love letter. Run through it on filing day with a pen.

Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposal, 500-word supporting statement, and cover letter. The escalation after 60 days.

The companies that build the weapons are publicly traded. For roughly $110 per human, you buy all of them, replace the boards, and hand the lobbyists an optimal budget calculated to maximize median healthy lifespan and median income. The takeover is loving because existing shareholders, employees, and directors live longer and get richer. Nobody loses.

Your government spends more on camouflage paint than on curing Alzheimer's. Move 1% of the bomb budget to medicine: $27.2 billion for clinical trials, plus $114 billion saved by slightly fewer explosions. The worst-case scenario is still the largest increase in medical research in history.

In 1961 the retiring five-star general warned the country about the military-industrial complex. The country nodded solemnly and spent the next sixty years building exactly what he warned against. The empirical literature now puts a number on it: an extra one percentage point of military spending as a share of GDP reduces economic growth by approximately one percentage point. The country that won World War II had 96.7% less military spending than the United States has today, and it won because its productive economy had not been cannibalized to fund a peacetime military. The current allocation is the mechanism by which the United States is losing strategic competition to China.

Your economists project 2.5% annual growth. This requires 20 consecutive years of nothing going wrong, which your species has never achieved. Meanwhile your destructive economy (military spending plus its cybercrime offspring) is already 11.5% of GDP and growing faster than your actual economy. Historical collapses consistently begin when total extraction hits 35-45% of GDP. This chapter models two paths, the one you're on and the one where you redirect the murder budget. One ends with average income at $34,972 (90% CI: $26,587-$43,903). The other ends with cockroaches finding this manual.