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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
We were talking about world hunger, but k. You’re obviously trying to pick a fight here on what was obviously not a concrete plan. I’m not sure if you noticed but I’m actually not an expert and don’t haven’t a 32 part plan on how to solve it. Instead pointing out the obvious fact that the man is worth more than the gdp of many nations and how none of that will go to help others, but please keep telling me how the idea of him helping is silly.
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.
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.
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.
Probably, but if you started with 500B vs 0 I’m guessing one will have a better result.
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?
In a capitalism-controlled world, political problems are money problems.
Not defending this worthless sack of shit but I’m certain he doesn’t actually have that much money
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.
He can take out loans using the made up money as collateral without ever paying taxes on it.
@snooggums I hate that.
Someone should dare Elon to do this.
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?
Somebody?
Somebody2152 perhaps?
He didn’t have that much money. He has stocks, and stocks from companies that don’t turn a profit won’t solve world hunger.
Yes. Thank you. We’re all aware of that, but pretty sure he could sell even 10 billion a year and fix it.
California spends 1.5 billion already and hasn’t accomplished anything. You think 10 billion would fix homeless across the country?
We were talking about world hunger, but k. You’re obviously trying to pick a fight here on what was obviously not a concrete plan. I’m not sure if you noticed but I’m actually not an expert and don’t haven’t a 32 part plan on how to solve it. Instead pointing out the obvious fact that the man is worth more than the gdp of many nations and how none of that will go to help others, but please keep telling me how the idea of him helping is silly.
It was $6B he offered
Musk said he could do it with six billion.
Naturally, he didn’t even try.
The same kind of person that steals a trillion from society in the first place
The same kind of person who ends government programs that help those hungry people, killing hundreds of thousands of them