🎯 Aligning Incentives

How to Bribe Everyone Into Not Killing Each Other

Here’s the truth about humans: they’re predictable. Give them a choice between making $100 from death or $1000 from life, and they’ll choose life every time. Not because they’re good people (they’re not), but because they like money.

The current system pays more for killing than curing. Defense contractors get 8% margins on bombs. Pharma gets recurring revenue from chronic disease. Politicians get campaign donations from both. Everyone’s getting rich except the people dying.

Here’s how you flip that equation.

Defense Contractors: Teaching Merchants of Death to Love Life

Defense contractors aren’t evil. They’re just following the money. Currently, that money comes from building things that explode. You’re going to offer them something better.

Their Current Business Model (It’s Actually Terrible)

Look at what they’re working with:

  • Profit margins: 8-15% on contracts (pathetic)
  • Customer base: One customer who hates paying (the government)
  • Product cycle: 20 years to build a plane that’s obsolete on delivery
  • Risk: Peace might break out (their literal nightmare)
  • Public image: “We make orphans” (hard to explain at parties)

Here’s Your Better Offer: VICTORY Bonds

Show them this math:

  • Current defense stock yields: 2-3% (basically inflation)
  • VICTORY bonds at full treaty: 270%+ perpetual returns
  • With treaty expansion (2%, 5%, 10%): Returns scale automatically
  • Liquidity: Trade them anytime (unlike locked government contracts)
  • Public image: “We cure cancer” (instant party hero)

The pitch is simple: “You can keep making bombs AND buy bonds that pay 10X better returns. Or your competitors will buy them and use the profits to destroy you.”

Why They’ll Take the Deal

The Portfolio Math:

  • They have $100B in pension obligations
  • Current portfolio returns: 6-8% (barely covers inflation)
  • Add 10% VICTORY bonds: Portfolio returns jump to 33%+ (90% at 7% + 10% at 270% = 33.3% blended return)
  • Their retirees get paid, they get bonuses, everyone wins

The PR Victory:

  • Current headline: “Raytheon Missile Kills Wedding Party”
  • New headline: “Raytheon Funds Cancer Cure”
  • ESG scores go from F to A overnight
  • Recruiting top talent becomes possible again

The Competitive Pressure:

Once Lockheed buys bonds, Raytheon has to follow or get crushed by Lockheed’s superior returns. It’s a beautiful prisoners’ dilemma where cooperation pays better than defection.

The Implementation Playbook

  1. Start with pension funds - Fiduciary duty requires best returns
  2. Move to treasury - Diversification mandate allows alternative investments
  3. End with advocacy - They lobby FOR the treaty to protect their investment
  4. Result - Defense contractors become your biggest supporters

Insurance Companies: The Accidentally Aligned Industry

Insurance companies are already on your side. They just don’t know it yet. Every disease you cure is billions they don’t have to pay out.

Their Current Death Spiral

  • Medical costs rising 7% annually
  • Premiums can’t keep pace (regulation)
  • Claims destroying margins
  • Chronic disease = lifetime payouts
  • Their business model is literally dying

Your Salvation Offer

The Math They Can’t Refuse:

  • Diabetes cure = $300B less in claims over 10 years
  • Cancer prevention = $200B saved annually
  • Mental health fixes = $500B in reduced disability claims
  • One VICTORY bond = Participation in all these savings

The Implementation:

  1. They buy VICTORY bonds (270% returns)
  2. They lobby for the treaty (protects investment)
  3. Cures reduce their claims (profits increase)
  4. They lower premiums (competitive advantage)
  5. Healthier population = permanent profit increase

Why They’re Your Natural Allies

Insurance companies are the only industry that profits from human health. Every other healthcare player profits from sickness. Use this natural alignment:

  • Pharma wants chronic patients - Insurance wants cures
  • Hospitals want full beds - Insurance wants empty ones
  • Doctors want repeat visits - Insurance wants one-time fixes

You’re offering insurance companies their dream: A world where people pay premiums but never get sick.

Pharmaceutical Companies: Converting Drug Dealers to Drug Curers

Pharma companies aren’t evil either. They’re trapped in a broken business model that rewards treating symptoms forever instead of curing diseases once. Here’s how you free them.

Their Current Trap

  • R&D costs: $2.6B per drug (unsustainable)
  • Success rate: 1 in 10,000 compounds work (lottery odds)
  • Timeline: 17 years to market (patients die waiting)
  • Patent cliffs: Blockbusters become generics overnight
  • Public hatred: Martin Shkreli is their poster boy

The Payment Reversal That Changes Everything

Current model (they pay for trials):

  • Pharma spends $48,000 per trial participant
  • Burns cash for 17 years hoping for approval
  • 90% of drugs fail in trials = money incinerated
  • Success means jacking up prices to recover losses

Your model (they GET PAID for trials):

  • Patients + DIH subsidies pay pharma $1,000 per participant
  • Positive cash flow from day one
  • Failure still profitable (got paid for trying)
  • Success means massive patient influx = huge profits

The Math That Converts Them

Traditional pathway:

  • Investment: $2.6B over 17 years
  • Success probability: 10%
  • Expected return: -$1.5B (most drugs lose money)

dFDA pathway:

  • Investment: $2M over 2 years
  • Revenue during trials: $10M (10,000 patients × $1,000)
  • Net profit BEFORE approval: $8M
  • If it works: $100M+ from patient surge

They make money whether the drug works or not. But if it works, they make fortune.

How to Get Them Onboard

  1. Start with generic manufacturers - No R&D costs, pure profit
  2. Add biotechs - Desperate for cash, will try anything
  3. Big pharma follows - Can’t let competitors have advantage
  4. Industry transforms - Competition shifts from marketing to outcomes

Politicians: Hacking Democracy’s Source Code

Politicians are the simplest organisms in this ecosystem. They want exactly two things: votes and money. You’re going to give them both.

Their Current Misery

  • Fundraising: 70% of their time begging for money
  • Approval rating: 18% (everyone hates them)
  • Actual power: Near zero (lobbyists write the bills)
  • Legacy: “That guy who renamed a post office”
  • Job security: One bad tweet from extinction

Your Political Welfare Program

The Money Pipeline:

  • Treaty supporter: Super PAC funds flow in
  • Treaty opponent: Super PAC funds their opponent
  • It’s not corruption, it’s free speech (thanks Citizens United!)

The Vote Harvest:

  • 280 million people voting on Wishocracy
  • You publish voting records: “Senator X opposes cheaper healthcare”
  • Their constituents see this in real-time
  • Support treaty or face electoral extinction

The Jobs Program:

  • Research facilities in their district
  • “Senator brings 10,000 jobs to Iowa”
  • Ribbon cutting ceremonies (they love those)
  • Local news coverage for years
  • Re-election guaranteed

The Bipartisan Beauty

This works on everyone:

  • Republicans: “Free market solution! Cuts government spending!”
  • Democrats: “Universal healthcare access! Helps the poor!”
  • Libertarians: “Ends FDA tyranny! Personal freedom!”
  • Socialists: “Destroys Big Pharma monopoly! Power to people!”

Everyone can claim victory because everyone actually wins.

Billionaires: The Easiest Marks

Billionaires have everything except the one thing money can’t buy: not dying. You’re selling immortality with a 270% annual return. This is the easiest sale in history.

What They Really Want

  • Legacy: Being remembered (narcissism is powerful)
  • Returns: Beating other billionaires (it’s all a game)
  • Survival: Not dying of whatever will kill them
  • Reputation: Not being history’s villain
  • Control: Shaping the future

Your Irresistible Package

The Investment:

  • VICTORY bonds: 270%+ returns forever
  • Beats everything in their portfolio \[ \text{\$1B investment} \rightarrow \text{\$2.7B annual returns} \]
  • Compounds into dynastic wealth

The Legacy:

  • “The Gates Cancer Center” (permanent naming rights)
  • “The Musk Longevity Institute” (feed that ego)
  • History books: “Funded the cure for death”
  • Nobel Peace Prize probable (they crave validation)

The Insurance:

  • They’re getting old (mortality is calling)
  • Their genetics aren’t special (death doesn’t care about wealth)
  • Every disease cured = their lifespan extended
  • Basically buying protection from biology

The Conversion Sequence

  1. Mortality reminder: “You have maybe 20 years left”
  2. Solution offer: “Unless we cure aging”
  3. Investment pitch: “270% returns while saving humanity”
  4. Ego stroke: “Your name on the cure for cancer”
  5. Close: “Bezos already committed” (they’re competitive)

The Domino Effect: How This Cascade Works

Once you align a few key players, the rest fall automatically:

The Sequence

  1. Insurance companies move first (pure financial logic)
  2. Their lobbying convinces politicians (money talks)
  3. Politicians create treaty momentum (votes follow)
  4. Defense contractors hedge (can’t risk being left out)
  5. Pharma pivots (adapt or die)
  6. Billionaires pile in (FOMO is powerful)
  7. Public demands participation (everyone wants in)
  8. System flips permanently (new equilibrium reached)

Why It Can’t Be Stopped

Network effects:

  • Each conversion makes the next easier
  • Opposition becomes more expensive over time
  • Eventually, resistance is financial suicide
  • The system locks into the new configuration

The Beautiful Inevitability:

  • Current system: Concentrated benefits (few win), diffuse costs (everyone pays)
  • Your system: Concentrated benefits (many win), diffuse costs (spread globally) \[ \text{More winners than losers} = \text{political inevitability} \]
  • Math determines outcome, not ideology

Conclusion: The Incentive Revolution

You’re not fighting human nature - you’re using it. Every actor in this system will make more money supporting you than opposing you. Not because they became good people, but because you made being good profitable.

The current system took decades to build its perverse incentives. You’ll destroy it in less than five years by offering everyone a better deal. When historians write about this, they’ll marvel at how simple it was: just pay people more to heal than to harm.

The beautiful part? Once this clicks into place, it’s permanent. The new incentives create a feedback loop that gets stronger over time. Every cure makes the next cure more profitable. Every success brings more supporters. Every supporter brings more resources.

You’re not starting a movement. You’re starting an avalanche.

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