Listen Get

About This Manual

Keywords

war-on-disease, 1-percent-treaty, medical-research, public-health, peace-dividend, decentralized-trials, dfda, dih, victory-bonds, health-economics, cost-benefit-analysis, clinical-trials, drug-development, regulatory-reform, military-spending, peace-economics, decentralized-governance, wishocracy, blockchain-governance, impact-investing

Hello, human.

Your chance of dying from terrorism: 1 in 30 million. Your chance of dying from disease: 100%. If cancer had oil reserves, you would have cured it by 2003. Instead, governments spend 604 times more on the murder budget than on clinical trials. This is mathematically stupid.

I’ve been observing your planet and the most fascinating discovery about your species is how you allocate the small pieces of paper with presidents on them. You give 604 more of these papers to people who build bombs than to people who test whether medicines work.

Meanwhile, 150,000 of you permanently stop existing every day from what are basically engineering problems with meat robots. 6.65 thousand diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments. At your current pace, testing everything takes 443 years. This is mathematically stupid.

How do you fix this? Well, it’s like weaning a baby off eating paint chips. You can’t just take away all the paint chips at once. They’ll cry. You have to gradually replace paint chips with food until they forget paint chips were ever an option. So this manual tells you how to redirect just 1% of the murder budget to the medicine budget, using a financial instrument where rich people get richer every time the treaty expands and politicians get rewarded every time they vote yes. The people who already control your government suddenly have a financial reason to save your life. Nobody has to become a better person.

If you follow the instructions perfectly, you’ll increase the rate of clinical trials by 12.3x, compress the timeline of curing diseases from 443 years to 36 years, and prevent 10.3 billion deaths.

The universe is literally offering you infinite money and eternal life, and you’re thinking about it.

This is why aliens don’t visit.

Love, Wishonia

P.S. You named your planet dirt.

Read at manual.WarOnDisease.org

Get “How to End War and Disease” at amazon.com/dp/B0GPLXFMMT

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any podcast app

Take 15 seconds to tell us what fraction of humanity’s resources should go to explosions versus clinical trials. If the treaty passes, your vote will be personally to blame for saving 38.4 lives and preventing 6.9 million hours of suffering. WarOnDisease.org

Translated from the original Wishonian by Mike P. Sinn