Peace Dividend

What happens when you build 1% fewer things that explode
Abstract
By redirecting 1% of global military spending to hyper-efficient pragmatic clinical trials, humanity can achieve 514 years of medical research in 20 years and shift the cure of every disease forward by 8.2 years, saving 416 million lives and generating $1.2 quadrillion in value.
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

Here’s what 1% less murder money buys:

How 1% Less Violence Pays For Everything

An analysis of a decentralized framework for drug assessment shows pragmatic clinical trials can be 82× more efficient. This explains where you steal the money to fund it.

Two ways you profit from building 1% fewer bombs:

1. The Captured Money: $27.2B/Year

Governments spend $2.69T yearly on things designed to make other things stop existing.

Redirect 1%:

$2.69T × 0.01 = $27.2B

This $27.2B funds your decentralized framework for drug assessment (dFDA), VICTORY Incentive Alignment Bonds, and the whole system.

2. The Bonus Savings: $114B/Year

That’s what you capture. Here’s what you save.

Wars cost $11.4T/year. Build 1% fewer bombs, fight 1% fewer wars, save $114B.

$11.4T × 0.01 = $114B

Money no longer spent on:

  • Unblowing-up hospitals and bridges
  • Treating humans full of shrapnel
  • Housing refugees (people whose homes got exploded)
  • Trade disruptions (hard to ship stuff through war zones)

Here’s the breakdown:

Where the $114B Comes From

Based on Cost of War analysis:

What Wars Cost Total/Year 1% Less War Saves
Direct Costs $7.66T $76.5B
Military budgets

$2.72T

$27.2B
Destroying infrastructure

$1.88T

$18.8B
Human casualties

$2.45T

$24.5B
Trade disruption

$616B

$6.16B
Indirect Costs $3.70T $37B
Lost economic growth

$2.72T

$27.2B
Veteran healthcare

$200B

$2B
Refugee support

$150B

$1.50B
Environmental damage

$100B

$1B
PTSD and mental health

$232B

$2.32B
Lost human capital

$300B

$3B
Total $11.4T $114B

You capture $27.2B for pragmatic clinical trials.

You save $114B on not breaking stuff.

That’s $5.18 saved for every $1 redirected.

Plus cancer gets cured as a bonus.

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