Now you understand the problem: everyone is dying while you build missiles.
Time to learn how to fix it. Your solution has three parts: A one percent treaty (stealing money from the murder budget).
A one percent Treaty Fund with algorithmic governance (so no one can steal it back).
A decentralized framework for drug assessment (making medicine forty-four point one times cheaper).
Take money from death, give it to life. The tricky part is convincing humans, who historically prefer the death option.
A one percent Treaty. Here's how you redirect twenty-seven point two billion dollars per year from bombs to medicine: You
ask every nation on Earth to cut military spending by one percent.
Just one percent. They keep the other ninety-nine percent for wars and parades and whatever else militaries do when they're
not accidentally losing trillions. One percent is a rounding error.
It's what the Pentagon loses between couch cushions. Everyone cuts simultaneously.
Nobody loses "relative power," which is the thing military people care about when they're not busy caring about flags and
saluting. I asked a general if losing one percent of weapons would weaken national security.
He said yes. I asked if having one percent fewer weapons pointed at you by every enemy would make you safer.
He stopped talking to me. The math is simple: If everyone has one percent fewer weapons, the balance stays exactly the same,
except now there are one percent fewer weapons total. What You Buy With one percent Less War Twenty-seven point two billion
dollars funds: Fifty-four thousand pragmatic clinical trials at five hundred thousand dollars each (the cheap way).
Or twenty-seven million patients in trials at one thousand dollars each.
Or five hundred forty new drug approvals (current rate: fifty drugs per year).
Or curing ten to twenty rare diseases completely in Year One.
Or preventing one hundred eighty thousand deaths annually. That money splits three ways.
Eighty percent goes to clinical trials. Ten percent goes to investors.
Ten percent goes to political incentives. The full allocation breakdown explains why each slice exists.
They say you can't put a price on human life. But apparently the price is somewhere south of pet food.
That seems like it should be revised upward (or you should admit you value dogs more than humans, which honestly might be
fair). Your Decentralized Institutes of Health. Once your one percent Treaty is ratified, that twenty-seven point two billion
dollars per year flows into a one percent Treaty Fund. It's a treasury with no C.E.O., no board, and no one to corrupt.
Money flows directly to patients and researchers via algorithmic rules, not through any intermediary organization.
The governance protocol is the opposite of the N.I.H. Instead of two hundred people in a building guessing what to fund
and giving grants to their college roommates, smart contracts hold the treasury.
Patients choose which trials to join. Funding flows automatically to researchers based on patient enrollment.
Trials that work get more patients and more funding. Trials that don't work get defunded, which is apparently a concept
so radical it took your species eighty years to consider. Wishocracy.
Wishocracy is how you let eight billion people control a budget without everyone killing each other in meetings.
Anyone can propose how to spend the money. The app shows you random pairs of proposals.
You swipe left or right. Everyone's swipes get aggregated using math.
Money flows automatically to top priorities. No committee. No gatekeepers.
Just billions of micro-decisions that add up to what humanity actually wants, not what 200 people in suits think humanity
wants. Your Decentralized Framework for Drug Assessment. The F.D.A.
currently makes drugs forty-four point one times more expensive than necessary.
Your decentralized framework for drug assessment, or D.F.D.A., does three things: Lets anyone run pragmatic clinical trials
(no permission needed). Tracks what actually works (real-world data, not guesses).
Publishes outcome labels (truth about every treatment). Instead of waiting fourteen years from discovery to patient while
you die, you join a trial. It costs nine hundred twenty-nine dollars instead of forty-one thousand dollars.
You report outcomes through your phone. The A.I. analyzes millions of data points.
The framework publishes rankings: "For your condition, this works seventy-three percent of the time, this works forty-five
percent, this does nothing but costs less.". It's like Amazon reviews except for not dying.
Outcome labels replace "ask your doctor" with actual facts.
"Improves memory thirty-five percent. Reduces symptoms sixty percent.
Causes headaches nine percent of the time. Based on fifty thousand real patients like you."
Just truth. No marketing. No forty-page legal documents written by lawyers having seizures.
Researchers set their own price. Patients choose which trials to join.
Money flows automatically. Markets decide, not committees. Sick people, guided by their doctors and data, choose what gets
funded. Not bureaucrats. Not grant writers. Actual humans who need actual cures.
Who Wins. The solution only works if everyone wins by winning.
Here's who gets what: Defense contractors keep ninety-nine percent of their budget and get two hundred seventy-two percent
returns on bonds. Pharmaceutical companies get patients to pay them instead of vice versa.
Politicians get campaign donations and avoid losing elections.
Insurance companies want you either dead or immortal, anything but expensively lingering, and cures help.
Billionaires get two hundred seventy-two percent returns, legacy, and naming rights.
Regular people get subsidized treatment, direct democracy, and not dying.
Notice that everyone's selfish reason for participating happens to save humanity.
The system doesn't require anyone to stop being selfish. It just redirects selfishness toward curing diseases instead of
building bombs. It's like installing a fire alarm that also makes coffee.
You're going to use it even if you don't care about fire safety.
The Scaling Engine. The goal isn't one percent. The goal is one hundred percent.
The one percent treaty is just the door, not the destination.
The ten percent going to Incentive Alignment Bonds creates a perpetual political machine that pushes for expansion.
When one percent passes, two point seven two billion dollars per year flows to people whose entire financial interest is
getting the treaty to two percent. When two percent passes, the pressure doubles.
The political pressure for expansion *accelerates* with each success.
This creates a ratchet that can eventually redirect all military spending from war to health.
VICTORY Incentive Alignment Bonds are the specific instrument.
They align investors (ten percent returns), politicians (ten percent career incentives), and patients (eighty percent cures)
with the same outcome. The War on Disease. You're declaring war on disease.
But unlike previous wars on abstract concepts (drugs, terror, poverty, Christmas), this one will actually work.
You're using markets instead of bureaucracy. Previous wars built bureaucracies that needed the problem to exist to justify
their existence. This war creates a market that profits from solving the problem.
The difference is like hiring a plumber who gets paid by the hour versus one who gets paid when your toilet works.
One of them is going to take a lot longer. And the benefits cascade beyond medicine.
Addiction, poverty, radicalization, crime; they're all biology problems wearing social-problem costumes.
Fix the biology, and the society fixes itself. It turns out people are much less interested in joining extremist groups
when their brain chemistry works properly. Why This Isn't Clinically Insane.
Post-World War Two: Cut military thirty percent, greatest boom ever.
Post-Cold War: Cut military three percent, nineteen nineties prosperity.
Switzerland: zero point seven percent military budget, richest country in Europe.
You're only asking for one percent. The Meta-Solution. This solution isn't just about ending disease.
It proves that paying people for results works better than paying people for promising results.
You can cure diseases by redirecting one percent of military spending through market mechanisms.
That same template solves education, housing, climate change, and literally any problem your governments currently solve
by forming a committee to discuss forming a committee. The War on Disease is proof of concept.
Victory here means you can fix everything else using the same playbook.
They say if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
But sometimes things are exactly as good as they seem, and the only reason nobody did them is that everyone was too busy
writing grant proposals about doing them. What Comes Next. The rest of Part Two explains each component in detail: Your
one percent Treaty: How to structure it so countries actually sign it.
Your Decentralized Institutes of Health: How algorithmic governance prevents corruption.
Wishocracy: How to let billions of people control a budget without lobbyists stealing it.
Your decentralized F.D.A., or D.F.D.A.: How to achieve forty-four point one times cost reduction in drug trials.
Aligning Incentives: How to make selfishness save humanity.
Incentive Alignment Bonds: How everyone makes money. The Peace Dividend: Why curing disease accidentally solves everything
else. That's it. That's the plan. If that seems anticlimactic, remember: Every revolution starts with someone doing something
slightly less stupid than what everyone else is doing. In this case, the slightly less stupid thing is redirecting one percent
of the murder budget to the not-dying budget. History will judge whether this was genius or obvious.
But either way, you'll be alive to see it. That's more than you can say for the alternative.