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Declaration of Optimization

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The purpose of government is to promote the general welfare, measured by the median healthy life years and median after-tax inflation-adjusted income of its citizens. This document is a polite request that they do so.

The purpose of government is to promote the general welfare, measured by the median healthy life years and median after-tax inflation-adjusted income of its citizens. This document is a polite request that they do so.

Why This Declaration Is Necessary

Governments were created to promote the general welfare (i.e. median health and wealth).

Instead, since 1913, these governments have printed $170 trillion and used it to murder 310 million humans and destroy many of the valuable things those humans spent their entire lives building.

These murdered humans include approximately 930,000 physicians, 310,000 scientists, 620,000 engineers, 1.24 million nurses, 3.1 million teachers, and 102 million children who will never grow up to replace them.

That $170 trillion could have funded 37,778 years (95% CI: 28,333 years-55,889 years) of clinical trials. They bought the other thing.

These governments have enough weapons to kill every man, woman and child on Earth 20 times65. Current military spending is enough money to buy 850 bullets for every person alive every single year. You only need to kill everyone once for everyone to be dead. (I checked.) The remaining murder capacity is sheer waste.

Seven consecutive failed audits have found that the Pentagon has “misplaced” $2.46 trillion146. They then requested additional trillions without explanation or apology. This “misplaced” money could have funded 577 years of clinical trials at current government spending.

For every 604 dollars they spend on the capacity for orphan manufacturing, they only spend one on clinical trials that might cure the diseases you and everyone you love will suffer and die from.

Your chance of being killed by a terrorist? 1 in 30 million2. Your chance of dying of a disease? 100%.

At the current discovery rate, finding treatments for all known diseases takes ~443 years (95% CI: 324 years-712 years). One percent of the explosions budget could increase clinical trial capacity by 12.3x (95% CI: 4.2x-61.4x) and compress that wait to ~36 years (95% CI: 11.6 years-77.1 years). The average cure arrives 212 years sooner.

This is important because you personally will be dead within 80 years. (I mention this not to be rude but because you seem weirdly calm about it.)

Had someone properly aligned your governments to maximize median healthy life years and median after-tax inflation-adjusted income in 1900, the average human would earn $333,636 (95% CI: $119,493-$922,648) a year instead of $14,375 (95% CI: $14,078-$14,686).

They did not. So that is what you are going to do.

This Declaration asks every nation on Earth to sign a treaty redirecting one percent of military spending to clinical trials. One percent.

Here is why this is not clinically insane. Even adjusting for inflation, governments now spend 30.6 times more than they did immediately before winning World War II133.

After that war, governments cut military spending by 87.6%147 and produced the greatest economic expansion in human history.

Unless the human genome has degraded significantly in the last two generations, one percent should be manageable.

These governments have already signed multiple global treaties banning entire weapons industries. This one just asks them to buy one percent fewer of them.

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 turnining into a missle. That missile incinerated a child who would 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.

Declaration of Optimization, April 2026

The unanimous Declaration of the Eight Billion Inhabitants of Earth

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to optimize the governance systems which have caused immeasurable preventable death and unnecessary poverty, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the optimization.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans are created equal, that they are endowed by their Biology with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Humans, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to optimize it, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness, measured by two metrics: the median number of healthy life years and the median after-tax inflation-adjusted income of its citizens.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by optimizing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long pattern of abuses and misallocations, pursuing invariably the same end, reveals a design to reduce them under absolute Suboptimality, it is their right, it is their duty, to optimize such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The Political Dysfunction Tax51, the total annual burden of suboptimality on the people of Earth: $101 trillion (95% CI: $83.3 trillion-$191 trillion) a year.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the inhabitants of Earth; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to optimize their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Governments of Earth is a history of repeated injuries and misallocations, all having as their direct result the establishment of an absolute Suboptimality over these people. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

They have refused their Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good; the correlation between public opinion and policy outcomes, measured across 1,779 policy decisions, is effectively zero148.

They have legalized the purchase of legislation at a current annual price of $4.4 billion (95% CI: $3.74 billion-$5.06 billion)138, the legal definition of corruption having been written by the beneficiaries of said corruption.

They have imposed Taxes without Consent, including the debasement of currency by unelected officials whose money creation functions as a tax the governed never voted for, reducing the dollar’s purchasing power by 96% since 191313.

They have spent over one trillion dollars across fifty years imprisoning and sometimes killing their own citizens for the crime of exercising sovereignty over their own bodies149, sovereignty being the distinction between a citizen and property.

The result has been a 1,700% increase in overdose deaths150,151 and drug use higher than when they started, while half of all murders go unsolved for want of the resources squandered on the prosecution of those pursuing happiness by means the state did not approve.

They have lied to the governed to manufacture consent for wars the governed did not want, fabricating attacks that did not occur, presenting evidence they knew to be false, and spraying carcinogenic chemicals on rice farmers and their children152, the exposed population now numbering four million with birth defects continuing to this day.

They have misplaced $2.46 trillion in military funds, failed seven consecutive audits attempting to find it146, and requested additional trillions without explanation or apology.

They have allowed the destructive economy153 to reach 11.5% of global output, growing faster than the productive economy, on a trajectory that crosses fifty percent by 2040. Once passing this threshold, earth will become a global failed state where it becomes irrational to produce because each dollar of value created is immediately stolen.

They have plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people: 310 million people since 190043, 8.37 billion years of human life stolen, $170 trillion in treasure spent on the enterprise.

Among them approximately 930,000 physicians, 310,000 scientists, 620,000 engineers, 1.24 million nurses, 3.1 million teachers, and millions of children who will never grow up to replace them.

They have directed 604 times more to the destruction of human life than to testing which medicines might preserve it42,58.

They have permitted 150 thousand people to die of diseases every day154, 104 every minute that passes, while possessing the means to accelerate solutions. The annual toll: 2.88 billion years of healthy life lost to disease and disability155, quietly deleted.

Nearly ten thousand known safe compounds remain untested for 99.7% of possible disease combinations. Yet the national health research institutions nominally responsible for finding cures direct only 3.3% (95% CI: 2%-5%) of their budgets to the clinical trials necessary to determine which diseases those compounds could treat156.

They have erected drug regulatory agencies that, after a drug has been proven safe, force patients to wait an additional 8.2 years28 while a committee determines whether the safe drug works well enough. For every death prevented by this vigilance, 3,068 people die waiting for the answer. Since 1962, the efficacy lag has killed approximately 102 million people157.

These regulatory barriers mean treatments without a billion-dollar market are never developed at all. The treatments that never were have killed an uncountable number of patients bounded only by the 55 million people who die of disease each year.

Through the combined effect of war spending, research misallocation, and regulatory cost inflation, they have left approximately seven thousand known rare diseases in a treatment queue that, at the current rate of fifteen approvals per year75, requires 443 years (95% CI: 324 years-712 years) to clear.

Through the compound effects of this misallocation to war alone, the governed are 23.2 times poorer than they would otherwise be. The average human earns $14,375 (95% CI: $14,078-$14,686) per year. Without the wars alone, that figure would be $333,636 (95% CI: $119,493-$922,648)43. On both metrics by which any government should be judged, healthy life years and median income, the present systems have failed absolutely.

In every stage of these Misallocations We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: peer-reviewed papers, public comment periods, protest marches, and online petitions. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Misallocation. Governments, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define Suboptimality, are unfit to manage the resources of a free species.

Nor have we neglected our governing institutions. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislatures to extend an unwarrantable dysfunction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our biological existence and the budget arithmetic of our premature deaths.

We have appealed to their stated missions and their campaign promises, and we have invoked the ties of our common mortality to disavow these misallocations, which would inevitably interrupt our survival and progress. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of evidence. We must, therefore, accept the necessity, which condemns our current Systems, and hold them, as we hold all governance systems, Accountable to Outcomes.

That this optimization is achievable requires no faith, only memory. These same governments cut military spending by 87.6% in two years following the Second World War147 and produced not collapse but the greatest economic expansion in recorded history. These same governments banned chemical weapons (193 countries), biological weapons (187 countries), and landmines (164 countries)90. They have signed treaties banning weapons they wished to use. We ask them to buy one percent fewer of them.

We, therefore, the Inhabitants of Earth, assembled across every nation and connected by common cause, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rightness of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of this planet, solemnly publish and declare, That the Inhabitants of Earth are, and of Right ought to be Free and Justly Governed; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to systems that produce outcomes worse than random allocation, and that all political connection between them and Suboptimal Governance, is and ought to be totally optimized.

And that as Free Inhabitants of Earth, they have full Power to optimize budgets and institutions, establish transparent allocation systems, contract Alliances with evidence, and to do all other Acts and Things which Self-Governing Civilizations may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Votes.

The proposed replacement system is documented in the Earth Optimization Protocol.

Signatories

Sign at warondisease.org | Propose amendments on GitHub