The full cost of war: $2.7T military + $2.4T dead people + $1.9T blown-up buildings + $3.7T in lost growth = $11.4T/year. That's 12.7% of global GDP. The Pentagon can't find $2.5T of its own stuff.
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Move 1% of the $2.7T bomb budget to medicine: $27.2B for trials, $114B saved from fewer explosions. Your worst case is the largest medical funding increase in history.
7,000 diseases have zero treatments. At current pace, you'll cure them all in 450 years. Redirect 1% of military spending and it drops to 50. The system costs less to run than Halloween costumes for dogs.
Your destructive economy (military + cybercrime) is 12-15% of GDP and growing faster than your actual economy. The Soviet Union collapsed at 15-18%. You have about 15 years. Choose wisely.
What if we took 1% of global military spending ($27.2B/year) and used it to actually save lives? 10.7 billion deaths averted. The maths checks out. The species does not.
A manual for ending war and disease using financial incentives, pragmatic trials, and the radical assumption that humans respond to money. Spoiler: they do. 10.7 billion lives at stake.
America's 4 richest counties all surround the Pentagon. Defense contractors discovered money can't travel far from where it's printed.
15,000 nuclear weapons can kill everyone 2.6 times. After the first death, you're just showing off with expensive redundancy.
US military spending 1914-2007. Countries spend trillions preparing to kill each other, then kill each other, then prepare again. Beautiful cycle.
US spends 37% of global military budget with 4.4% of world population. $600 billion on weapons. Switzerland makes chocolate instead.
$1.8 trillion global military spending vs $100 million brain research. Chart required 17,000 pixels high to show military spending properly.
Pentagon lost $2.3 trillion announced Sept 10, 2001. Next day planes hit towers. Perfect timing for forgetting about military waste.
Pentagon paid $1.1 trillion to convicted fraudulent defense contractors over 10 years, then gave them raises for stealing from taxpayers.