What's the maximum cost to achieve any policy change through legal democratic channels? $25B for the US, $200B globally. For high-value reforms like military-to-health reallocation, this yields a benefit-cost ratio exceeding 400,000:1.
Think by Numbers runs cost-benefit analyses for a species that spends $604 on weapons for every $1 on clinical trials. We suspect a math error.
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Banks needed $125 billion TARP bailout. Same banks gave $1 million each to Obama 2008 and Romney 2012. Both candidates support bailouts.
America's 4 richest counties all surround the Pentagon. Defense contractors discovered money can't travel far from where it's printed.
Obama quadrupled deficit to $2 trillion, then cut to $533 billion. Media called it fiscal responsibility. Like setting house on fire then putting out half.
42% of suicide attacks (1981-2000) by non-Muslims. Top terrorist group was Hindu Marxists, so the confusion requires third-grade math.
There is no line between smart people and the other kind. There is a ladder, from snails up to perfect knowledge, rationality, and logic, and every human who ever lived (the geniuses, the presidents, all of us) is bunched together near the bottom of it, squinting up. Which means a large fraction of what we believe, what we voted for, and what we are angry about is probably wrong.
Kant's categorical imperative applied to biotech funding. You cannot universalize 'spend money on killing instead of curing.' Therefore redirecting military spending to clinical trials is not optional. It is a categorical duty.
Full case for getting organizations and individuals to endorse IC2EWD. Binary A/B choice, ICAN/ICBL precedent, post-WWII data, capital misallocation, fiduciary duty, margin flip, PCT engine, three infinities, integrated business case, and specific asks.
Diseases are slowly murdering you and everyone you love while your government maintains 122 apocalypses worth of nuclear weapons for one civilization and spends 604 times more on war than on curing the diseases that are 18.4 thousand times more likely to kill you than a terrorist. Now imagine buying the companies responsible, turning their lobbying toward cures instead of war, and getting filthy rich if it works, while still holding real assets if it does not.
In 1789, Bentham reduced all morality to 7 variables. Slide them in our morality calculator. Killing your cat still scores negative.