🤝 The 1% Treaty

The Beautiful Mathematics of Mutual Stupidity Reduction

Here’s a fun fact: Every nation on Earth is pointing guns at every other nation on Earth, spending trillions of dollars to maintain what we call “peace.”

It’s like if everyone in your neighborhood spent their life savings on attack dogs, and then called it a “safe community” because all the dogs are equally vicious.

The 1% Treaty is based on kindergarten logic so simple that world leaders might actually understand it:

The Proof That Even Generals Can Follow

  1. Current Situation: Every country spends billions on weapons to be exactly as scary as other countries with weapons. Like a very expensive, very deadly Mexican standoff that’s been going on since 1945.

  2. The Magic Trick: If EVERYONE reduces their murder budget by exactly 1% at exactly the same time, everyone stays exactly as scary as before.

    • America: Still has 6,500 nukes instead of 6,565
    • Russia: Still has 6,000 nukes instead of 6,060
    • China: Still has enough weapons to kill everyone twice instead of 2.02 times
    • North Korea: Still terrifying but now 1% less so

  3. The Punchline: Nobody loses! Everyone keeps the same relative scariness! It’s like if everyone at a party agreed to take off their shoes - everyone gets shorter by the same amount, but nobody actually gets shorter relative to anyone else.

  4. The Prize: That 1% - that $27 billion per year - goes into a global fund to cure the diseases that are actually killing people, unlike the bombs which are mostly just sitting around getting dusty and occasionally almost ending the world by accident.

This is so logical it hurts. Which is why it’s never been tried. And here’s the best part: 1% is just the entry fee. This is a subscription model for saving the world.

Why reallocation is necessary: the case for the 1% Treaty

Savings from 1% less war: what we gain

How Treaties Actually Work (A Guide for Idiots and Presidents)

Treaties are magic pieces of paper that countries sign when they want to pretend they’ll behave.

Sometimes they work (we haven’t had World War III yet). Sometimes they don’t (we’ve had about 200 other wars). But they’re the only tool we have for getting countries to do anything together besides kill each other.

The 1% Treaty: Technical Specifications for Global Survival

Article 1: The Promise

“We, the undersigned nations, being of sound mind and tired of dying, hereby agree to redirect 1% of our annual military expenditure to not dying instead.”

Article 2: The Money Part

Every signatory nation contributes exactly 1% of their military budget to the Decentralized Institutes of Health Treasury (working title).

Projected annual contributions to the Decentralized Institutes of Health Treasury from top military spenders, based on a 1% reallocation of their defense budgets.

Article 3: The Enforcement Mechanism

If you don’t pay, everyone else gets to call you names at the UN. Also, your citizens find out you chose bombs over their grandmother’s cancer treatment. Good luck with that election.

Article 4: The Escape Clause

Any nation can leave with 1 year notice. During that year, they have to explain to their citizens why they’re choosing death over life. Also, all other nations get to reduce their contributions proportionally, maintaining the balance of terror.

Article 5: The “What If Someone Cheats” Clause

Real-time satellite monitoring of military spending. We can see your secret underground bunkers from space, Kevin. We know about the submarines. Pay up.

Why This Is Actually About National Security (No, Really)

Here’s what actually threatens nations in 2025:

Real Threats (That Actually Kill People)

  1. Pandemics: COVID killed more Americans than World War II, Korea, and Vietnam combined
  2. Cancer: Kills 10 million globally per year
  3. Heart Disease: 18 million annual deaths
  4. Dementia: Destroying the minds of every nation’s elderly (and sometimes their leaders)
  5. Climate Disasters: Making entire regions uninhabitable
  6. Mental Health Crisis: More people kill themselves than die in wars

Fake Threats (That Countries Spend Trillions On)

  1. Other Countries Maybe Attacking: Happens occasionally, usually over stupid stuff
  2. Terrorists: Kill fewer people than furniture accidents
  3. Space Aliens: Still zero confirmed kills
  4. The Communists/Capitalists: Mostly just sell each other stuff now
  5. Immigration: People moving around, terrifying
  6. Critical Race Theory: A graduate seminar that somehow threatens nations

The 1% Treaty addresses the real threats while maintaining our ability to deal with the imaginary ones.

It’s security theater, but with an actual purpose.

The Rebranding Campaign: From “Weakness” to “Strategic Genius”

Politicians hate looking weak. It’s their biggest fear, right after being caught with their mistress or having to use their own healthcare system.

So we don’t frame this as “reducing military spending.” We frame it as:

“The Strategic Health Defense Initiative”

  • Old Frame: “We’re cutting defense by 1%” (Political suicide)
  • New Frame: “We’re building a biodefense shield against the real threats” (Political genius)

The Talking Points That Make Hawks Sound Like Doves

For Conservatives: “This is the ultimate America First policy. We’re protecting American lives from the Chinese virus and any future biological threats. It’s the Strategic Defense Initiative for the 21st century.”

For Liberals: “We’re redirecting the tools of war to the cause of healing. This is how we build a more just and equitable world.”

For Nationalists: “Our nation will be stronger when our people aren’t dying of preventable diseases. A healthy population is a powerful population.”

For Economists: “The ROI is 1,222:1. It’s the single greatest economic opportunity in human history.”

For Conspiracy Theorists: “Big Pharma hates this one weird trick that makes medicine basically free.”

For Everyone: “Your mom has cancer. This might cure it. Sign here.”

The Implementation Timeline (Or: How to Boil Humanity Slowly)

Phase 1: The Whisper Campaign (Months 1-6)

Start rumors in defense circles. “Have you heard about the 1% solution?” Make it sound like a secret military strategy. Use PowerPoints with lots of arrows.

Phase 2: The Think Tank Infection (Months 6-12)

Get RAND Corporation and other military think tanks to write impenetrable 400-page reports on “Biosecurity Through Cooperative Threat Reduction.” Nobody will read them, but everyone will assume they’re important.

Phase 3: The Media Blitz (Months 12-18)

Leaked documents. “EXCLUSIVE: Secret Pentagon Plan to Save Humanity.” Get it on Joe Rogan. Then CNN. Then Fox News, but frame it as owning the libs somehow.

Phase 4: The Political Theater (Months 18-24)

Congressional hearings where generals explain that biodefense is the real defense. Show charts of Chinese biotech investments. Use words like “asymmetric advantage” and “force multiplication.” Politicians nod sagely while understanding nothing.

Phase 5: The International Cascade (Months 24-36)

Once three major powers sign on, everyone else panics about being left behind. It’s like when one kid gets a Pokemon card and suddenly everyone needs Pokemon cards.

Countries that sign early get “Founding Member” status, which means nothing but sounds important.

Phase 6: The Victory Lap (Month 36+)

Every politician claims credit. Nobody remembers who opposed it. History books call it “inevitable.” We all pretend we’re not surprised it worked.

The Money Flow: Where $27 Billion Actually Goes

Once the treaty is signed and the money starts flowing, here’s what happens:

The Global Fund for Not Dying (Official Name TBD)

Input: $27 billion annually from military budgets worldwide

Distribution: The $27 billion flows into the DIH Treasury, where it is allocated directly by the people of Earth via the Wishocracy platform. There are no committees or central planners. While allocations are dynamic, initial priorities determined by the crowd are projected to focus on: - Patient Subsidies: The largest portion, creating a market for clinical trials. - VICTORY Bond Returns: A fixed 10% of inflows, as promised to investors. - Research & Development: Funding for breakthrough platform technologies. - Pandemic Preparedness: A global insurance policy against the next COVID. The exact percentages will shift in real-time based on humanity’s collective will.

Governance: Governance is handled by Wishocracy, a system of direct digital democracy detailed in the ‘How to Replace Congress With an App’ chapter. In short: every human gets direct say on funding priorities. Yes, even Florida Man. We’ll risk it.

Year One Projected Outcomes

  • 50,000 new treatments tested
  • 1 million patients enrolled in trials
  • 100+ diseases with new treatment options
  • 0 new nuclear weapons built with that money
  • ∞ political careers saved by claiming credit

The Secret Incentive Structure Nobody Talks About

Here’s the dirty little secret: The military-industrial complex will LOVE this.

Why? Because they get to:

  1. Keep 99% of their budget (still plenty for bombs)
  2. Pivot 1% to biotech (higher profit margins)
  3. Look like heroes (rare for arms dealers)
  4. Invest in the fund (270% annual returns, remember?)
  5. Not die of cancer (even arms dealers get cancer)

Lockheed Martin Presents: The F-35 Cancer Killer™ Boeing Proud Sponsor of: Not Dying of Alzheimer’s Raytheon Technologies: Now With 1% Less Death

They keep their contracts. They keep their profits. They just point 1% of their death machines at actual death. This isn’t just about saving lives; it’s about creating the single greatest growth industry in human history—the business of not-dying—and letting everyone get a piece of the action.

What Happens If This Actually Works

The Endgame: A Hostile Takeover of the War Industry

The 1% Treaty isn’t the goal. It’s the foot in the door. It’s the crowbar that pries open the vault of the global war machine. This is a multi-generational strategy to make organized violence economically obsolete. We’re not appealing to better angels; we’re making peace more profitable than war.

The Ratchet Effect: How to Boil a Frog (The Frog is the War Machine)

Once the 1% Treaty is signed and the first cures for “untreatable” diseases start rolling out, the system gets hungry for more. This is how you feed it.

Every five to ten years, we hold another global vote. The question is simple: “Hey, that worked out great. Grandma’s dementia is manageable and we stopped that pandemic before it started. Want to try another half-percent?”

It’s a politically tiny ask with an enormous payoff. This creates a feedback loop from hell for the “war is good, actually” crowd. More cures lead to more popular support, which leads to more votes for more funding, which leads to more cures. It’s a self-reinforcing flywheel for peace. The military budget gets put on a diet, one delicious, life-saving, politically-unassailable bite at a time.

The Economic Gold Rush

Eventually, the economic gravity of the planet will shift. The most talented scientists and engineers will be drawn to the massive opportunities in health and longevity, not designing better ways to blow people up. The world’s biggest investors will realize the greatest returns are found in curing Parkinson’s, not in building another aircraft carrier.

Nations will find that true power and global influence come not from their capacity for destruction, but from their contributions to human flourishing. The new geopolitical dick-measuring contest won’t be about who has the most nukes, but about who cured aging.

A Multi-Generational Timeline

Year 1: The Awkward Beginning - Politicians argue about who thought of it first - Military contractors rebrand as “health defense” companies - First cures emerge, everyone pretends they’re not surprised - Global military spending: Still $2.69 trillion (nobody notices the difference)

Year 5: The New Normal - Cancer survival rates double - Alzheimer’s has three new promising treatments - The “Redirect” is now at 3%. Military budgets naturally decline because healthy, happy people are less interested in starting wars. - Some country tries to quit, gets voted out of office by angry grandmothers.

Year 10: The History Books - “The 1% Treaty: How Humanity Chose Life Over Death” - Military spending down to 90% of 2025 levels. The redirect is at 10%. - Former weapons manufacturers are now the world’s leading producers of artificial organs and gene therapies. - Nobel Peace Prize goes to whoever takes credit (probably Switzerland).

Year 50: The View from Tomorrow - Death is mostly optional. War is mostly a video game. - The redirect is at 50%. The military-industrial complex now builds starships and planetary defense systems against asteroids. - Children learn about cancer the way we learn about polio. - Someone writes a book called, “Remember When Humans Used to Kill Each Other? What Idiots.”

The Counter-Arguments (And Why They’re Stupid)

“But what if our enemies don’t reduce their spending?”

They do, or they’re not part of the treaty. It’s simultaneous. Like synchronized swimming, but with less drowning.

“This makes us weak!”

You still have 99% of your weapons. You can still end the world. You’re fine.

“The military creates jobs!”

So does medical research. More, actually. And the workers don’t get PTSD.

“This is socialism!”

No, it’s math. Also, the military is already socialism. This is just socialism that saves lives instead of ending them.

“It’s too complicated!”

We put humans on the moon with slide rules. We can figure out how to move money from Column A to Column B.

“What if there’s a war?”

There’s always a war. We’ll still have 99% of our capacity to wage it. Plus, healthy populations fight better. Ask the Spartans. (Actually don’t, they’re all dead. But you get the point.)

The Bottom Line

The 1% Treaty is a piece of paper that says “Let’s spend 1% less on killing and 1% more on not dying.”

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

It doesn’t end war. It doesn’t destroy the military. It doesn’t create world peace.

It just moves the first 1% of our murder budget to our survival budget.

If we can’t agree on that - if we can’t agree that spending 1 penny less on death and 1 penny more on life is a good idea - then we deserve whatever’s coming.

Addendum: The Actual Treaty Text (First Draft)

THE TREATY FOR THE 1% REALLOCATION OF MILITARY EXPENDITURES TOWARDS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PREVENTION OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND DEATH

(Or: The “Let’s Not Die” Treaty, for short)

WHEREAS, humanity spends $2.7 trillion annually on methods of killing itself;

WHEREAS, this seems somewhat counterproductive;

WHEREAS, diseases kill more people than all wars combined and don’t even have the decency to be quick about it;

WHEREAS, we have nuclear weapons sufficient to end civilization 20 times but can’t cure male pattern baldness once;

WHEREAS, this is embarrassing;

NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned nations agree to stop being complete idiots about this, as follows:

Article I: Each signatory shall redirect exactly 1% of its annual military budget to a global biomedical research fund, starting immediately or whenever their legislature gets around to it, whichever comes first.

Article II: This money shall be used exclusively to cure diseases, extend human life, and make existence less horrible.

Article III: Any nation caught spending this money on weapons shall be mocked relentlessly at international gatherings.

Article IV: This treaty shall remain in force until humanity either cures death or causes its own extinction, whichever comes first.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being of sound mind and tired of watching their loved ones die of preventable diseases, have executed this Treaty.

Signed this day, ____________, in the year of our ongoing confusion, 2025.

[Nation Name] “We choose life, I guess”

P.S. - If your nation doesn’t sign this, your citizens will find out you chose bombs over their medical care. Good luck with that.

P.P.S. - Yes, this includes space weapons. Nice try.