How to End War and Disease

You want to end war and disease but don't have a nonprofit, a bank account, or anything to offer anyone. Here's how to recruit 100,000 humans before you have anything except an argument. It's a Kickstarter where the reward tier is 'possibly not dying,' which is the most compelling crowdfunding offer in history. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass part...

Bribing politicians is illegal unless you call it 'lobbying' or 'campaign contributions.' Then it's protected speech. Here's the legal architecture for saving humanity using your own ridiculous laws. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

Nonprofits fighting disease currently compete for the same shrinking pile of donor money. A 1% treaty creates $27.2 billion in new funding. Every charitable organization can stop fighting over crumbs and start fighting for the bakery, if someone tells them the bakery exists. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politicall...

Most financial plans are complicated because the writers are confused or lying. This one has three steps. Raise $1B (using greed, not generosity, because greed is faster). Spend it to pass the treaty. Manage $27.2B a year forever, with 80% curing diseases, 10% paying investors, and 10% keeping politicians obedient. The corruption is capped at 20% and fully transparent, which already makes it the m...

6.65 thousand diseases have zero approved treatments. At your current pace, you'll get to all of them in 443 years. Redirect 1% of military spending and it drops to 36 years, preventing 10.7 billion deaths at 50.3kx the cost-effectiveness of anti-malaria bed nets. The whole thing costs less per year to run than Halloween costumes for dogs. But sure, take your time. Vote to redirect 1% of the murde...

Your economists project 2.5% annual growth. This requires 20 consecutive years of nothing going wrong, which your species has never achieved. Meanwhile your destructive economy (military spending plus its cybercrime offspring) is already 11.5% of GDP and growing faster than your actual economy. The Soviet Union collapsed at 15-18%. This chapter models two paths, the one you're on and the one where...

Your government spends more on camouflage paint than on curing Alzheimer's. Move 1% of the bomb budget to medicine: $27.2 billion for clinical trials, plus $114 billion saved by slightly fewer explosions. The worst-case scenario is still the largest increase in medical research in history. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the tr...

Previous treaties failed because they ran on guilt. Guilt has terrible fuel efficiency. This one runs on greed, which is (regrettably) humanity's only reliable fuel source. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

Humanity downloaded TikTok over 4 billion times to watch strangers twerk. Getting 280 million people to click 'yes' on not dying should be easier. Here's how, with math. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

This isn't a protest. It's a recipe. Step one, collect papers from rich humans (using greed). Step two, get 280 million humans to click a button (using paid referral bonuses, because your species won't save itself for free). Step three, apply papers to politicians until the treaty happens (using the only language they understand). Every step has a budget, a timeline, and a contingency plan for the...

Fun facts for those reasonably skeptical of spending 1% more on helping sick people than killing them. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

On one planet, citizens allocate the budget directly, lobbyists don't exist, and disease was eradicated 4,000 years ago. It uses the same technology you have. The difference is they pointed it at biology instead of each other. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

A planet had every tool needed to cure disease and chose to build weapons instead. They went extinct. Their last words were 'but the economy.' This is a bedtime story for civilizations that can't do math. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

The usual objection to curing all disease is that it's impossible. You replace 330 billion cells a day. You 3D-print windpipes. You reprogram skin into brain cells. You've already proven your body is a machine, and machines are repairable. The only reason you haven't repaired it is that you spent the repair budget on missiles. This chapter removes the "impossible" objection so you can get back to...

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. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

On Wishonia, the Optimitron comes free with your first government. Its Optimal Budget Generator (OBG) and Optimal Policy Generator (OPG) check which policies work by looking at the 10,000 places that already tried them. Your species skipped this step and went straight to arguing. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty polit...

War bonds, but backwards. Your grandparents funded WW2 at roughly 3% returns. You fund disease eradication at 272%. Same structure, fewer Nazis, better spreadsheet. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

Pharmaceutical companies make more money treating you forever than curing you once. Defense 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. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation ma...

On Wishonia, you type in what's wrong with you, see what worked for everyone else, and try it. The outcomes get recorded automatically. We've had this for millennia. Your decentralized FDA is the same thing, built with technology you already have. It's an open protocol that connects treatments to patients, records what actually happens, and publishes the results. Consumer Reports, but for not dyin...

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 inste...

You have enough nuclear weapons to kill everyone 13 times. Here's how to settle for 12.87 times and use the savings on medicine. Controversial, apparently. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable. https://warondisease.org

There are 9.5 million possible drug-disease combinations. You've tested 32,500. That's like searching for your keys in 0.34% of your house and declaring them lost. The other 99.7% is sitting right there, untested, because the molecules weren't profitable enough to bother. Vote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically u...

Your money is manufactured in a building by people you didn't elect. It has funded unpopular wars that killed 97 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. Vote to redirect 1% of the...

Your government spends 604 times more on weapons than on testing which medicines work. You could elect 535 Gandhis and within two years they'd be funding nuclear weapons programs, because the system requires it. Princeton studied 1,779 of your policy decisions and found that public opinion has the same effect on legislation as a houseplant. This chapter explains why you can't vote your way out, an...

A root cause failure analysis to show why the world's largest medical research institution only allocates 3.3% of its budget to testing which of the thousands of known-safe treatments actually work in humans. Oxford tested COVID treatments for $500 per patient and saved a million lives in 100 days. The NIH spent $1.6 billion and completed zero trials in four years. Vote to redirect 1% of the murde...