The US government wastes $4.9T annually—17% of GDP. The Pentagon can't find $2.5T of its own assets. Americans spend 7.9 billion hours doing taxes. Systems engineering says we can fix this.
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Drug development costs increased 105x since 1962. Before regulations, drugs cost $24.7M to develop. Now it's $2.6 billion. The pills haven't gotten 105 times better.
86% of patients are excluded from clinical trials. 95% of rare diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments. The Right to Trial Act says: what if sick people could try things? Controversial.
46,000+ country-years of policy data. 3,500+ US state-years. Centuries of natural experiments we've never analysed. The OPG just asks: what worked? Then suggests doing that.
Stage 1 costs 10 cents per patient. Stage 2 costs $929. Traditional trials cost $41,000. That's a 44x reduction. The drugs don't know the difference.
Harvard study shows 3.5% active participation changes society. Not clicking "like." Actual showing up. Your government publishes the percentage needed.
FDA banned monoclonal antibodies despite 30% efficacy. They ignored $3.7T Long COVID cost, risked $600M in preventable hospitalizations.
Princeton study shows 90% of Americans have zero impact on legislation. 0% or 100% support both equal 30% passage chance. Democracy is flat line.
IRS already has your data; automating returns could save $191 billion. Instead, they make you spend 13 hours transcribing what they know and threaten prison if you miscalculate.
Roatan residents spend $740/year on bottled water. Building a water plant costs 40x less over 25 years. The math is third-grade arithmetic. Like using a helicopter to commute one block.