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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 69 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

What was the figure? All it would take to end world hunger is 500 billion or something like that? Half one person's weath?

What sort of person has that amount and decides not to end world hunger.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 36 points 11 hours ago

Musk said he could do it with six billion.

Naturally, he didn’t even try.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 68 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The same kind of person that steals a trillion from society in the first place

[–] errer@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago

The same kind of person who ends government programs that help those hungry people, killing hundreds of thousands of them

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Hunger is a political problem, not a money problem. You can't just say "here are X billion dollars, let's end world hunger". Having said that, the system that allows people like Musk to get that rich, is also the same system that creates hunger.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 hours ago

Here in the good ole USA money and politics are the same thing. If you have the political will, you can get the money and if you have the money, you can but the political will.

That said, didn’t Elmo have a beef with the fucking United Nations because he said he’d pay the 6 or 7 billion to end world hunger if the could prove that it’s possible and then they produced a detailed plan and he quibbled and but-akshually’ed his way to a reneg because he never intended to do jack shit for anyone other than himself?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 10 hours ago

Probably, but if you started with 500B vs 0 I'm guessing one will have a better result.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not defending this worthless sack of shit but I'm certain he doesn't actually have that much money

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I mean it’s all tied up in stocks and if he wanted to liquidate it, all he’d lose control over all his companies and the sudden sell off would collapse the company stocks and probably destroy the world economy.

It looks very impressive on paper though.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He can take out loans using the made up money as collateral without ever paying taxes on it.

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Someone should dare Elon to do this.

[–] somebody2152@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They did.

in 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-solve-world-hunger

except it was 1/6 of his worth (6.6b$) instead of half, and we he did nothing they left the plan public and called for wny other billionaires to do it.

And since you're hearing about it here, guess who stepped up to do it?

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Somebody?

Somebody2152 perhaps?

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

What it would really take to end world hunger is massive systemic change that’s actually pretty straight-forward but is fought by every single person who loves a deaperate workforce and their insane conservative followers who believe that their greatest enemy is a hungry person.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 12 hours ago

It was $6B he offered