Your money is manufactured in a building by people you didn't elect. It has funded unpopular wars that killed 310 million people. They give it to their friends first, then use the rest to buy weapons you didn't ask for. By the time it reaches you, it buys less. This has been happening for a century. Nobody covers it on the news because it is, by design, extremely boring.

Your military-industrial complex solved coordination for killing: weapons manufacturers, generals, politicians, and factory workers all profit from the same budget, so they all show up. Disease has no such coalition. Your Decentralized Institutes of Health builds one. It does three things: receive treaty funds, allocate them via patient choice and wishocratic voting, and pay based on results instead of grant applications. It's SHAEF for the war on disease. Same selfishness as the military-industrial complex, but pointed at biology instead of each other. Nobody gets paid for writing essays about why they should be allowed to try curing things. They get paid for curing things.

How to let billions of people say whether the next marginal public dollar should buy another nuclear weapon system or fund another pragmatic clinical trial, without routing the answer through lobbyists, committees, and middlemen.

Pharmaceutical companies make more money treating you forever than curing you once. Military contractors earn $1,425 per lobbying dollar. Nobody is evil. The incentives are. Rearrange the profit motive so curing disease pays better than causing it, and watch capitalism accidentally save your species.

War bonds, but backwards. Your grandparents funded WW2 at roughly 3% returns. You fund disease eradication at 272%. Same structure, fewer Nazis, better spreadsheet.

Civilization is a machine with a job: increase pleasant conscious experience and reduce unpleasant conscious experience. HALE and median income are the terminal general-welfare metrics. Here is the schematic, the way a repair manual draws one, so you can see which part failed.

After World War 2, they cut the bomb budget 87.6% and walked into the largest rise in living standards in history. Then they put it back. Here is what happened.

Nobody designed a world that spends 604 dollars on war for every dollar on clinical trials. Four mechanisms produced it without anyone deciding to. That is worse than a conspiracy, because there are no bad guys to remove.

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.

Humans are the contestants in the Earth Optimization Prize. This paper documents the current open-source instruction manual for helping humanity raise healthy life years and median income by 2040. Fork it and improve it to help humanity win faster.