The Show That Ended War and Disease

society, culture, business · EN

It takes 100 nuclear bombs to cause a nuclear winter. We currently have 12,200. That's enough for 122 apocalypses even though we only have 1 civilization to apocalypse. Meanwhile everyone you love is or is scheduled to be tortured and murdered by terrible diseases. This excess mass murder capacity is ultimately a clerical error in 193 spreadsheets: the national budgets that determine what humanity does with trillions of dollars every year. In each episode, a guest is inaugurated as President of an imaginary company called Earth Optimization Services, a subsidiary of Universe Optimization Services. Their mandate is to minimize suffering, end war and disease, and maximize humanity’s health and prosperity. This is measured using two numbers: median healthy life expectancy and median after-tax, inflation-adjusted income. The President identifies what humanity is getting wrong, decides what should be done instead, and gives their instructions. </