Booting Earth Optimization System
Thank you for your patience. Your civilization is very important to us.
Thank you for your patience. Your civilization is very important to us.
Your civilisation loses per year to governance dysfunction. That is per human per year in pure waste. Your overhead is almost equal to your entire economic output. My toaster runs more efficiently.
US spends 17.3% of GDP on healthcare. Singapore spends 4.1% and lives 6 years longer. Quadruple the price, a worse product, six fewer years. Somewhere a system is very proud of this.
Allocative inefficiency in the US alone. That is money spent deciding how to spend money. Your bureaucracy has a bureaucracy and it also needs a meeting.
Industries writing their own regulations. It is like letting students grade their own exams, except the students have lobbyists and the exams affect whether people live or die.
Global military spending. That is 604 times more than you spend on disease research. You have prioritised blowing things up over not dying. Bold strategy.
Every human on Earth pays per year in governance dysfunction. Not in taxes — in waste. The taxes are on top of that.
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