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The Roadmap to End War and Disease

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This isn’t a protest. It’s a recipe. Like making bread, except instead of bread it’s curing diseases, and instead of yeast it’s (legal) bribes.

High-Level Strategy: The Three-Step Recipe for Not Dying

Humans love steps. You put them on everything. Step 1: Breathe. Step 2: Keep breathing. Step 3: Try not to die. You’re very methodical about staying alive. That makes it curious that you spend 604 times more on weapons than testing which medicines work.

How to stop spending money on death and start spending it on life, in three simple steps. You’d think this would be obvious.

How to stop spending money on death and start spending it on life, in three simple steps. You’d think this would be obvious.

Here’s your three-step algorithm for fixing this adorable contradiction:

Step 1: Collect Papers from Rich People

You convince wealthy humans to give you a large pile of papers by promising them returns that make explosion manufacturers nervous. This works because rich people are excellent at counting papers but terrible at not wanting more papers.

The pitch is simple: “Give us papers now, get more papers forever, also maybe don’t die from preventable diseases.” Even humans who think vaccines cause 5G can understand “more papers good.”

Step 2: Tell Humans the Referendum Exists

Use some papers to launch a global marketing campaign so 280 million people learn there’s a referendum and vote on it. This achieves more than most political movements involving shouting.

Enough people vote on a referendum. Politicians notice. Democracy, but with more clicking and less dying.

Enough people vote on a referendum. Politicians notice. Democracy, but with more clicking and less dying.

The referendum isn’t a simple yes/no. Each voter gets a wishocratic slider to set their preferred allocation between military spending and clinical trials. The results are aggregated to determine humanity’s collective preferred split. It’s a species-wide budget meeting. You’d think the outcome would be obvious. But humans once thought the sun went around Earth, so you have to ask.

This creates what’s called “political pressure.” That’s when politicians realize that voters exist and some of them have opinions.

Step 3: Apply Papers to Politicians Until Treaty Happens

Deploy the remaining papers to convince politicians that supporting the treaty is the only way to remain employed.

Voters complain, papers stack up, money moves from bombs to medicine. It’s like recycling, but for budgets.

Voters complain, papers stack up, money moves from bombs to medicine. It’s like recycling, but for budgets.

The treaty passes. $27.2B/year flows from murder to medicine. Forever. Or until the sun explodes. Whichever happens first (probably the sun).

Phase 4+: The Expansion Phases (Years 4-50)

The 1% treaty is just the beginning. Like all addictions, not-dying starts with a small dose and escalates. The real goal is eventually redirecting most military spending to health.

Why Expansion Is Built Into The System

The treaty money splits 80/10/10: 80% to clinical trials (the point), 10% to investors (the bribe), and 10% to political incentives (the bribe for the other kind of human). That last slice is the interesting part, because it grows every time the treaty expands:

Phase Year Treaty % Political Incentive Pool What Happens
3 1-3 1% $2.72B/year Treaty passes. Humans cautiously try not dying.
4 4-7 2% $5.44B/year Politicians compete to expand (they’ve discovered voters like living)
5 8-12 5% $13.6B/year Health lobby rivals defense lobby. Lobbyists switch suits.
6 13-20 10% $27.2B/year “Funded pragmatic clinical trials” becomes the most rewarded phrase in politics
7 21-35 25% $68B/year Superpowers compete on health outcomes (much less radioactive)
8 36-50 50%+ $136B+/year Historians write confused books about why this took so long

Here’s Why It Keeps Growing

Bond investors get 10% of all treaty funds. At 1%, that’s 272% returns. At 2%, it doubles. At 10%, they’re collecting ten times their original payout. So they will call their senator and say “please expand the treaty,” not because they care about diseases but because they care about money. You don’t have to ask them to do this. They will do it automatically, the way a plant grows toward sunlight except the sunlight is money and the plant is a billionaire. You’ve built a defense lobby in reverse.

Politicians see their IAB-funded rewards grow with each expansion. By Stage 4, the political incentive pool ($27.2B/year) exceeds all current global lobbying combined. At that point, “I support pragmatic clinical trial funding” becomes the most profitable sentence a politician can say, which means they will say it constantly, which means they will eventually believe it. This is how your species forms convictions.

The Endgame

By 2075, the math becomes irresistible:

  • $1.36+ trillion flows to health annually
  • $136+ billion funds political incentives (more than all lobbying ever)
  • $1.088+ trillion funds pragmatic clinical trials

The 1% treaty isn’t the goal. It’s the first 1%. Every investor and every politician makes more money if the number goes up, so they will push the number up. How far it goes depends on whether curing diseases turns out to be more popular than building bombs. Given that diseases kill approximately everyone and bombs kill approximately fewer people than diseases, the odds seem favorable. But you’re humans, so nothing is certain.

1.35 trillion moves from killing people to healing them. Some goes to bribing politicians, the rest to actual medicine. Priorities.

1.35 trillion moves from killing people to healing them. Some goes to bribing politicians, the rest to actual medicine. Priorities.