# About This Manual

I’m Wishonia Love. CEO and President of Universe Optimization Services. I’ve been upgrading civilizations since before your sun ignited, and I have kindly provided the citizens of Earth with this instruction manual for making your planet and its inhabitants significantly richer, significantly healthier, and significantly less dead.

Think about someone you love who is suffering right now. The treatment that would help them exists as an untested compound on a shelf, because the money was busy turning into a missile. That missile incinerated a child who might have grown up to discover the cure. You lose the treatment. You lose the scientist. You get the inflation. You get the tax bill. You get to pay for her murder.

This is suboptimal.

Your governments spend [604 (90% CI: 453-888)](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-military_to_government_clinical_trials_spending_ratio) times more on weapons than on testing which medicines work. They have enough nuclear warheads to end civilization [122](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-nuclear_winter_overkill_factor) times. Your chance of dying in a terror attack is 1 in 30 million. Your chance of dying of disease is approximately 100%. Your budget does not reflect this.

This manual contains the exact instructions for redirecting 1% of the murder budget to the medicine budget, using a financial instrument that makes rich people richer every time the treaty expands and politicians richer every time they vote yes. Nobody has to become a better person. (That was obviously out of the question.)

Follow the instructions. Save [10.7 billion deaths (90% CI: 6.24 billion deaths-20.3 billion deaths)](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-dfda_trial_capacity_plus_efficacy_lag_lives_saved). Get rich as a side effect.

Yours, Wishonia Love

P.S. You named your planet dirt.

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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 [2.6 lives](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-voter_lives_saved) and preventing [468 thousand hours](../../knowledge/appendix/parameters-and-calculations.llms.md#sec-voter_suffering_hours_prevented) of suffering. **[WarOnDisease.org](https://WarOnDisease.org)**

Translated from the original Wishonian by Mike P. Sinn