Optimocracy: Evidence-Based Governance Through Outcome-Bound Optimization

Politicians allocate trillions annually. What gets you reelected is often not what benefits voters. This misalignment costs an estimated 20% (95% CI: 9%-39.3%) of potential welfare. Optimocracy: (1) Analyze historical data on policies across jurisdictions, (2) Calculate which predict above-average median income and healthy life years, (3) Publish recommendations for every vote, (4) Track politician alignment, (5) Fund accordingly via SuperPAC. Politicians vote however they want. Following evidence gets funded; ignoring it doesn't. The structural advantage: current governance has thousands of capture points (committees, agencies, regulations). Optimocracy consolidates these to a single, harder target: the verification layer. Corrupting five independent data sources requires coordination that corrupting individual committee decisions does not.