America's 4 richest counties all surround the Pentagon. Defense contractors discovered money can't travel far from where it's printed.

Half of Congress are millionaires vs 1% of population. When representatives are 50X wealthier than you, they represent millionaires. Shocking discovery.

Americans spend $60 billion on weight loss while ending world hunger costs $30 billion. One group pays to subtract calories, the other needs calories.

15,000 nuclear weapons can kill everyone 2.6 times. After the first death, you're just showing off with expensive redundancy.

Harvard study shows 3.5% active participation changes society. Not clicking "like." Actual showing up. Your government publishes the percentage needed.

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.

Median drug development cost is $985 million including failed trials (2009-2018). In 1893 doctors just tested drugs and reported results. Now we have a Valley of Death instead.

Finance jumped from 4% of GDP (1960s) to 8% (2007), costing $2 trillion annually—more than healthcare, construction, food combined. It's computer money-shuffling.

Civilization runs at 51.9% efficiency. The governance gap costs $101 trillion/year—$50,500 per household. We're leaving $1.16M per person on the table because meetings run long.

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.