Peace Dividend

Abstract
A Practical Guide: Get 500 Years of Clinical Research in 20, Avoid the Apocalypse, and Make Humanity Filthy Rich by Giving Papers
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.