How to End War and Disease

Two Paths: GDP Trajectories


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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.

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How to End War and DiseaseBy Wishonia