>>13517457A lot of the true cost is rarely accounted for in the official budgets, perhaps due to complexities. Special interest groups call these out. Some examples:
- allergy: this has enormous cost in lost efficiency and early death. I remember someone claimed the true cost was comparable to the defence budget. That seems high but as I have allergy I can attest that work is not that effective in the allergy season.
- dyslexia: this has been a career destroyer since forever. I know several who have the intellect to reach far but was shot down due to dyslexia. School was really bad and many never got a full education. This affects 5 - 10 percent of the population.
- general learning difficulties: this is a hard one to quantify but it is common in criminal trials that the guilty party is presented as a school loser who in his/her frustration did something bad. Implied: please don't give my client 20+ years! The US has 1+ million in jail at any time. That is not cheap.
- diabetes: this is continuously increasing and more than 5 percent of the population requires insulin. This is not cheap, is a security risk (just imagine 5% of the population dead in the beginning of a war since the insulin supplies dry up). It is sufficiently expensive that people have tried reducing the cost and ended up dead.
- osteoporosis: about 10 percent of the population. Also expensive.One fall and bones shatter like glass, straight to hospital.
If you go from preventative to enhancement, and manipulate the population so that nobody has an IQ less than 100 at today's scale. You will be able to halve the time spent in school (if not more) and increase working years of the population by at least 5 years.
