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Legal Architecture Bribing politicians is illegal unless you call it 'lobbying' or 'campaign contributions.' Then it's protected

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speech. Here's the legal architecture for saving humanity using your own ridiculous laws.

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On Wishonia, when we wanted to redirect resources from destruction to medicine, we just did it.

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The entire process took about a week. We didn't need lawyers because we didn't have lawyers, which is one of the main reasons

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it only took a week. On Earth, saving lives requires written permission from several governments, a tax classification,

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a securities exemption, and the approval of a regulatory body named after the thing it fails to regulate.

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Your Securities and Exchange Commission regulates securities, not security.

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Your Department of Defense mainly attacks people. Your Department of Justice is where justice goes to take a very long nap.

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I have studied your laws for eighty years. They are not designed to prevent wrongdoing.

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They are designed to ensure that wrongdoing happens in the correct font, on the correct form, filed in the correct jurisdiction.

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Once the paperwork is in order, your species will permit almost anything.

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This is not a criticism. It is the design parameter that makes everything in this chapter possible.

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What follows is the legal architecture for curing disease using your own ridiculous laws, which is to say, using your laws

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exactly as written, just not as intended. On your planet, that's the most legal thing there is.

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Entity Number One: Your five hundred and one c three Public Charity ("The Brain").

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This is your standard nonprofit. The kind that lets the Gates Foundation give you tax-deductible money, which is money the

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government pretends it never saw, as a reward for doing something the government should have done itself but couldn't because

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it was busy buying bombers. The Brain runs your global referendum, which is a non-binding educational survey showing two

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hundred and eighty million plus humans want to not die. It funds academic studies proving your system is broken (studies

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that, I should note, nobody will dispute because the system is obviously broken and everyone knows it; you need the studies

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anyway because your species does not act on things it knows until a university confirms them).

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It runs public awareness campaigns like this manual you're reading right now.

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And it builds software, including your decentralized F.D.A.

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and Wishocracy, which are the tools that eventually replace the grant-writing machine with something that works.

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What it cannot do is lobby politicians (mostly). A five hundred and one c three can do limited lobbying under the "no substantial

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part" test, but it's easier to let the next entity handle it.

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On your planet, there's a legal distinction between "teaching people facts" and "suggesting people act on those facts."

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It means nothing in practice, but the I.R.S. cares deeply about it, and the I.R.S.

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is the one organization on Earth less fun to argue with than death.

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Why a U.S. five hundred and one c three? Because it unlocks foundation grants.

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A non-binding educational survey is clearly educational. The clue is in the name.

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Entity Number Two: Your five hundred and one c four Social Welfare Org ("The Sword").

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This is your political advocacy arm. Donations are NOT tax-deductible, which is the price of being allowed to have opinions.

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On your planet, having opinions about where money goes costs money.

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Not having opinions is free. This explains a great deal about your civilization.

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The Sword takes the referendum results from your Brain and weaponizes them: unlimited lobbying, voter mobilization of two

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hundred and eighty million plus referendum participants, and the kind of political pressure that makes politicians sweat

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through their suits. Your species invented an organizational form specifically for telling politicians what to do.

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Then you made a different form for everything else. Then you made it illegal for the two forms to talk to each other, except

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through carefully worded press releases, which is how they talk to each other.

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Entity number three: The Victory Corporation ("The Engine").

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This is a standard for-profit corporation. Designed to speak the only language Wall Street understands, which is money.

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Other languages Wall Street claims to understand include "sustainability," "stakeholder value," and "corporate responsibility,"

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but it's been faking comprehension of these for decades and nobody has noticed, or rather everyone has noticed and nobody

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has cared, which on your planet is the same thing. The Engine issues VICTORY Incentive Alignment Bonds (two hundred and

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seventy-two percent target returns), uses one billion dollars to fund lobbying and campaigns, and administers the treaty

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treasury infrastructure: investor payouts, reporting, compliance, and the operating machinery it is legally allowed to run.

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It is not the entire I.A.B. stack. The scoring, electoral, and post-office incentive layers stay firewalled in separate

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entities, because on your planet the difference between "systematic incentive design" and "obvious bribery" is mostly whether

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the lawyers separated the entities correctly. It is, in short, the part that makes rich people richer for making sick people

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better. On Wishonia, this arrangement would be considered bizarre.

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On Earth, it's the only arrangement that produces results. Why Delaware?

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More corporations than humans live there. Your Supreme Court decided that companies are people who can talk, and talking

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is spending money. This sounds like satire but is actually constitutional law.

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Delaware has made itself the place where imaginary people go to be born, which is a sentence that sounds like it was written

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by a mentally unwell person but is in fact a precise description of American corporate law.

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Entity number four: Your Decentralized Institutes of Health Foundation ("The Soul").

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This is the parent organization. Based in Switzerland, where your species keeps its most valuable things and its least valuable

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opinions. The Swiss have avoided war for over one hundred and seventy-five years by holding everyone's money.

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Even Hitler couldn't make them pick a side. If you're building something designed to survive hostile governments, put it

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in the country that survived all of them by being too useful to invade.

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The Foundation owns one hundred percent of Victory Corporation, ensuring profit serves mission instead of the other way

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around (which is what happens when you don't do this, as demonstrated by every hospital chain, insurance company, and pharmaceutical

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firm that started with noble intentions and ended up maximizing shareholder value, which is corporate for "forgetting why

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you exist"). It accepts international grants. Its legal charter is permanently locked to ending war and disease, which means

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no future board can wake up one morning and decide the real mission was luxury condos all along.

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And it sits in a neutral jurisdiction for treaty coordination, because coordinating an international treaty from a country

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that is party to the treaty is like refereeing a football game in which you're also the quarterback.

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Why One Organization Pretending to Be Four. Each entity does only what's perfectly legal in its jurisdiction.

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Combined, they do what's impossible with a single structure.

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This is like a relay team where each runner is only allowed to run on a specific type of surface, so you need four runners

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for four surfaces, and the baton is billions of dollars. The firewalls matter more than the entities themselves.

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Charitable funds never touch political operations (the I.R.S.

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is watching). Political funds never touch bond proceeds (the S.E.C.

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is watching). International funds stay firewalled from U.S.

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political spending (the F.E.C. is watching). Separate bank accounts, separate staff, separate lawyers.

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Everyone watches everyone. This is called "compliance" and it's the most expensive form of distrust your species has invented,

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which is saying something, because your species has invented a lot of expensive distrust.

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The A.C.L.U., N.R.A., and Planned Parenthood use this same structure.

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It works for protecting gun rights, reproductive rights, and civil liberties.

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You just haven't pointed it at disease yet. The General Staff.

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Victory Corporation employs your core team, raises your capital, and executes your strategy.

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Your species spent thousands of years perfecting how to coordinate mass killing.

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Time to plagiarize that homework for the opposite purpose. The organizational structure borrows from your military, because

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your military is the only institution on Earth that has successfully coordinated millions of humans toward a single objective,

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even if that objective was the wrong one. G One handles personnel (keeping track of humans, which is harder than it sounds).

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G Two handles disease intelligence (deciding which diseases die next, which is a sentence your species should have been

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saying for decades but wasn't because nobody was coordinating).

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G Three handles operations, running your decentralized F.D.A.

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clinical trials, which is the only part that actually cures anything.

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G Four handles logistics and treasury, managing your VICTORY Bond money (counting it, moving it, resisting the urge to steal

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it, which requires a surprising amount of institutional design).

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G Five handles plans and strategy, thinking about next year while everyone else panics about next quarter.

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And G Six handles signal and communications, which is propaganda, which is the reason you're reading this instead of doing

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something useful. The Foundation watches the Victory Corporation to make sure profit stays on its leash.

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Mission drift happens to every for-profit entity eventually.

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It's like entropy but for mission statements. The only defense is a nonprofit owner with a locked charter and a very long

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memory. Securities Law (A Section Named After Oranges). VICTORY Incentive Alignment Bonds are securities under the Howey

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Test, a legal test named after a citrus company. Your entire securities regulation framework traces back to a man selling

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oranges in Florida. This is, genuinely, how the most powerful economy on Earth decides what money is.

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On Wishonia, we find this charming in the way that you find a child's drawing charming: it's technically wrong but it clearly

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means well. The plan: start with Regulation D (rich people only, because your laws allow rich people to lose money on speculative

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investments but protect poor people from the opportunity to make money on speculative investments, which your species calls

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"investor protection" and I call "a very specific kind of cruelty").

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Expand to Regulation crowdfunding, or C.F., and A plus (everyone else).

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Full know-your-customer, or K.Y.C., and anti-money-laundering, or A.M.L., compliance throughout, because you need to verify

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that nobody uses your disease-curing bonds to launder money from their disease-causing enterprises, which is a real concern

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given that several of your largest industries do both simultaneously.

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Election Law (A Section About Legal Bribery). You already know your Supreme Court decided that money is speech (see: Delaware,

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where imaginary people are born fluent in it). Your First Amendment protects the right to petition your government, which

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means spending unlimited money telling politicians what to do.

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The text's authors would find this reading creative in the way that a teacher finds a student's excuse creative when the

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dog allegedly ate the homework. The one rule your species enforces seriously: foreign nationals can't spend money on U.S.

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elections. Violating this gets you federal prison, not a fine.

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American money touches American elections. International money touches everything else.

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They never mix. This is the one firewall where your species chose prison over paperwork, which tells you exactly how much

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your politicians care about foreign influence compared to how much they care about domestic corruption (domestic corruption:

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fine; foreign corruption: prison; the corruption itself: identical; the distinction: nationalism).

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For the full details on Super PACs, the foreign national firewall, and international compliance, see Election Law.

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Treaty Framework. The one percent Treaty is a formal international agreement.

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Like the ones your species already signs about postal rates and fish, except this one redirects military spending to clinical

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trials. Apparently more controversial than fish, which tells you everything about your species' priorities.

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For the full treaty structure, ratification process, and enforcement mechanisms, see one percent Treaty.

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Risk Mitigation (When They Come For You). When you threaten trillion-dollar industries by curing disease cheaply, powerful

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people notice. They notice the way a bear notices you've sat on its children.

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The question is not whether they'll attack. The question is which attack vector they'll use first, and whether your lawyers

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bill more per hour than theirs, which is how legal disputes are actually decided on your planet, despite what they teach

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in law school. Securities fraud is the obvious one. Your defense: full compliance from day one, in multiple jurisdictions,

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documented so thoroughly that investigating you feels like auditing a library.

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Election law violations are the second. Your defense: complete segregation of funds, plus a constitutional challenge ready

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to file, because money is speech and your Supreme Court said so, and once your Supreme Court says something it stays said

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for decades regardless of whether it makes sense. Tax evasion is the third.

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Your defense: pay every penny, voluntarily, enthusiastically, more compliantly than churches, and nobody audits churches.

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RICO and conspiracy charges are the fourth, and the most creative.

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Your defense: everything is public. This manual is public. You're reading the conspiracy right now.

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It's hard to prosecute a plan published in paperback, distributed globally, and available in audiobook format for people

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who prefer their conspiracies read aloud. The broader strategy is simple: top firms in every jurisdiction, former regulators

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on retainer (they wrote the rules, so they know where the rules get tired and stop paying attention), and compliance so

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perfect that investigating you produces nothing except billable hours for your opponents' lawyers, who will eventually tell

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their clients to stop because the meter is running and the library is boring.

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Follow every rule so perfectly that nobody martyrs the boring.

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Boring is your best defense. Your species has a long history of persecuting the interesting and ignoring the tedious.

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Be tedious. Be so tedious that the prosecutors fall asleep before they find anything, and when they wake up, the treaty

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has already passed, and the diseases are already being cured, and the money is already flowing, and by the time anyone objects,

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objecting would mean taking medicine away from sick people, which is the one thing your politicians cannot do on camera.

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If the courts fail anyway, you have international arbitration, regulatory capture (former S.E.C.

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commissioners are surprisingly affordable, like vintage furniture), and two hundred and eighty million referendum participants

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who make politicians reconsider their entire careers. This entire strategy uses the exact same legal structures that currently

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enable tax avoidance, dark money, and corporate welfare. The tools of corruption, repurposed for medicine.

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The loopholes meant for billionaires will fund medicine for billions.

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Your species built a legal system with more loopholes than walls, and then acted surprised when people walked through the

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loopholes. The surprise is not that loopholes exist. The surprise is that nobody walked through them carrying medicine until

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now. Legal Disclaimer (The Part Your Lawyers Insisted On) This chapter is not legal advice.

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Hire lawyers who understand that "legal" and "unprecedented" are not mutually exclusive.

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If your lawyers tell you this can't be done, get better lawyers.