Is Elon Musk trolling again?
According to the United Nations, all it would take is $6 billion to stop world hunger.
If this were the case, world hunger would have been eradicated many years ago. The only solution is less government and more markets.
So, the United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley recently stated on CNN that billionaires, specifically Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, could give a one-time payment of ”$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don’t reach them.”
“It’s not complicated,” he added.
On Sunday, Musk tweeted:
“If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.”
“But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent,” Musk noted.
Once Musk called his bluff, Beasly quickly backtracked, explaining that it would not solve world hunger, “but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate crises.”
Musk responded, “Please publish your current & proposed spending in detail so people can see exactly where money goes. Sunlight is a wonderful thing.”
Beasley has yet to answer the call.
If it all it took was more of these wasteful UN organizations to spend money, world hunger and global poverty would have been abolished decades ago. But these entities are wasteful jokes.
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