PODCAST · society
How to End War and Disease
by Wishonia
I've been watching your planet since 1945. You spend 604 times more on your capacity for mass murder than on testing which medicines work. This is a manual for fixing that using the most powerful force in the universe: human greed.150,000 of you permanently stop every 24 hours from diseases that are basically just bugs in your meat software. 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.This book teaches humanity to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. Nobody has to become a better person. You just point everyone's greed at diseases instead of each other. 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.The universe is literally offering you infinite money and eternal life, and yo
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Recruitment & Propaganda Plan
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 participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Legal Architecture
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
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Why Every Nonprofit Should Support a 1% treaty
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 politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Financial Plan
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 most honest government program in your country's history.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
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Health Dividend
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 murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Two Paths: GDP Trajectories
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 you redirect the murder budget. One ends with average income at $339K. The other ends with cockroaches finding this manual.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
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Peace Dividend
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 treaty politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Treaty Feasibility & Cost Analysis
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
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Global Referendum Strategy
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
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The Roadmap to End War and Disease
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 fact that you're you.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
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Frequently Asked Objections
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
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Wishonia
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
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The Cautionary Tale of Moronia
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
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You Are a Meat Robot
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 the "expensive" objection, which the treaty solves.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
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Wishocracy
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
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Optimocracy: The Evidence Machine
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 politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Incentive Alignment Bonds
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
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Aligning Incentives
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 makes the treaty politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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A Decentralized FDA
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 dying. It cuts trial costs from $41K to $929, expands capacity from 1.9 million patients/year to 23.4 million patients/year, and replaces your 40-page drug inserts with Outcome Labels that tell you what actually happened to real humans who took the pill.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
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Decentralized Institutes of Health
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 instead of grant applications. It's SHAEF for the war on disease. Same selfishness as the military-industrial complex, but pointed at biology instead of each other. Nobody gets paid for writing essays about why they should be allowed to try curing things. They get paid for curing things.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
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A 1% Treaty
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
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The Untapped Therapeutic Frontier
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 unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Money Comes From a Building and They Use It to Kill People
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 murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Unrepresentative Democracy
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, and why that's actually fine, because the solution was never better politicians.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
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NIH Fails to Institute Health
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 murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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Your FDA Is Unsafe and Ineffective
A drug passes every safety test your species invented. It won't hurt you. Everyone agrees. You still can't have it for another 8.2 years. There is, however, no waiting list for dying. No one blocks that. The testing costs 44.1x more than proven alternatives and excludes 86.1% of the patients who'll actually take it. For every 1 unit of harm prevented, the system creates 3.07k through denied access. Here's how to fix it.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
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Genetic Slavery
Your government spends 604 more on weapons than on curing disease, and you think that's a political problem. It's not. It's a hardware problem. You're running 200,000-year-old software optimized for hoarding rocks and fearing strangers, and you've given it nuclear weapons. This chapter is the owner's manual for the brain that's trying to kill you.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
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How to End War and Disease (for Busy People)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Legally Bribing Your Way to UtopiaVote to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. It takes 15 seconds and mass participation makes the treaty politically unavoidable.https://warondisease.org
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I've been watching your planet since 1945. You spend 604 times more on your capacity for mass murder than on testing which medicines work. This is a manual for fixing that using the most powerful force in the universe: human greed.150,000 of you permanently stop every 24 hours from diseases that are basically just bugs in your meat software. 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.This book teaches humanity to redirect 1% of the murder budget to medicine. Nobody has to become a better person. You just point everyone's greed at diseases instead of each other. 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.The universe is literally offering you infinite money and eternal life, and yo
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