UN Elon Musk offers to sell Tesla stock 'right now' if UN can show how $6 billion would solve world hunger - Because Ugandan Hookers and Somali Warlords Don't Pay For Themselves

London (CNN Business) — Elon Musk has offered to sell some of his Tesla (TSLA) stock "right now" if the UN can prove that $6 billion will solve world hunger.

His comments came after UN World Food Programme (WFP) director David Beasley challenged the ultra-wealthy — and in particular the world's two richest men Jeff Bezos and Musk — to "step up now, on a one-time basis" to help solve world hunger in an interview with CNN last week.

"$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don't reach them. It's not complicated," Beasley said on CNN's Connect the World program with Becky Anderson. That sum would equate to roughly 2% of Musk's net wealth.

Posting on Twitter on Sunday, the Tesla chief executive said: "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion 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," he added.

Beasley replied to Musk's post on Twitter, saying he could assure the billionaire that the WFP had the systems in place for transparency and open source accounting.

"Your team can review and work with us to be totally confident of such," he said.

"$6 billion will not solve world hunger...

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...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," he added.

Addressing the billionaires directly in the CNN interview, he said: "What if it was your daughter starving to death? What if it was your family starving to death? Just, wake up, smell the coffee and help."

As of Monday, Musk had a net worth of $311 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, making him the richest man in the world.

The net worth of US billionaires has almost doubled since the pandemic began, standing at $5.04 trillion in October, according to progressive groups Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness.

Last week, Tesla became the sixth company in US history to be worth $1 trillion and the second fastest to achieve that milestone after Facebook (FB).

Elon Musk offers to sell Tesla stock 'right now' if UN can show how $6 billion would solve world hunger

Elon Musk has offered to sell some of his Tesla stock "right now" if the UN can prove that $6 billion will solve world hunger.

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If Elon Musk's daughter was starving and the WFP were involved, she'd probably just starve to death, or get a train run on her by some Blue Helmets in exchange for a bag of rice.

The U.N. Food Programme's Rampant Corruption

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[TurkishOreo]

Solving world hunger is impossible. All it will do is create more mouths to feed at an even faster pace. That would end up killing more in the long run.

Wasn't there a comic where Africans just kept breeding after realizing that the UN will feed them?

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Since Grimes fucked off, he's back on the shitposting grind more than ever.

That and plus dancing like Wario on SNL must have given him serious reconsideration

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I spy another Spitting Image sketch.

 

[Ser Prize]

Let's not forget:
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Socialists until they want their money.

I mean, he is right and he did the right thing, but the hypocrisy (or ignorance of what socialism is) stands.

That's how socialists roll, yeah.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Oh, I know exactly how to solve it but the narrow-minded dolts at the UN will just call it 'genocide'.

 

[Irrelevant]

Isn't world hunger due to mismanagement rather than not enough food?

Developed countries would need to colonise Africa to fix it.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

They said 42 million, not the entire world. He's being disingenuous as usual, and his drones are lapping it up.

 

[ZeCommissar]

While I think the richest people should do something with their money instead of just sitting on it and making crypto memes this is some pretty dumb shit.

6 billion won't end the civil wars, corruption, and infrastructural instability causing these people to starve. All that money and food will just end up in the hands of the warlords. We already have enough food, and we have been dumping food and money into those regions for decades. Maybe if the UN would get off their ass and start destroying the shitty warlords wrecking these countries, and actually set the people up instead of just dumping it into their laps then maybe the people there won't starve. Oh and stop diddling kids too

But expecting the UN to be competent is like putting a steak in front of a stray dog and expecting it not to eat it.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

UN food programs have done very little if you remove the enriching of warlords and destruction of local farming.

 

[Quijibo69]

This is pretty much like a Turd Sandwich vs A Giant Douche.

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

They said 42 million, not the entire world. He's being disingenuous as usual, and his drones are lapping it up.

42 million people divided by 6 billion dollars is 140 bucks a head. His point stands. Anyone who thinks throwing a Benjamin at a starving third world peasant will do anything but kick the can a couple months down the road is deluded at the very least.

"Solving world hunger" is such a nonsense goal that I have a hard time believing any adult would ever take it seriously in the first place. That's Baby's First Utopian Pipe Dream. It's not even possible to define, much less solve. It's one step away from saying you want to get rid of unhappiness.

 

[DumbDude42]

if you solve world hunger today, within ten years the subhumans will have multiplied so much that they're starving again, and you'll be asked to "solve" the "problem" again.

 

[Local FloRida-man]

From the first archive link:

Half of the population of Afghanistan -- 22.8 million people -- face an acute hunger crisis, according to a WFP report released Monday. Rampant unemployment and a liquidity crisis means the country is teetering on the edge of a humanitarian crisis and 3.2 million children under the age of five are at risk, the report concluded.

We just left and these fucks still expect us to keep throwing money at this shithole.

The US alone spends 47 billion a year on foreign aid and it doesnt do shit. But keep spending money goyim! Keep throwing cash in the hole! Just 6 billion more and we'll totally save those heckin 42 gorillian!

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

From the first archive link:

We just left and these fucks still expect us to keep throwing money at this shithole.

The US alone spends 47 billion a year on foreign aid and it doesnt do shit. But keep spending money goyim! Keep throwing cash in the hole! Just 6 billion more and we'll totally save those heckin 42 gorillian!

At this point it's the sunk cost fallacy combined with too many bureaucrats who profit from the spending. We should just pull all the funding and let whatever happens in 3rd world shitholes happen.

We can always colonize after they die out.

 

[Yuri_]

if you solve world hunger today, within ten years the subhumans will have multiplied so much that they're starving again, and you'll be asked to "solve" the "problem" again.

So you're telling me that we can eliminate starvation for 10 whole years with this method...?! WOW, we've gotta try this!

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

42 million people divided by 6 billion dollars is 140 bucks a head. His point stands. Anyone who thinks throwing a Benjamin at a starving third world peasant will do anything but kick the can a couple months down the road is deluded at the very least.

"Solving world hunger" is such a nonsense goal that I have a hard time believing any adult would ever take it seriously in the first place. That's Baby's First Utopian Pipe Dream. It's not even possible to define, much less solve. It's one step away from saying you want to get rid of unhappiness.

I'm not arguing that it's stupid to think the money can solve the issue, but Musk misrepresenting the issue so he can laughingly shrug it off is par for the course with his type of bullshit. Hell, you're doing the same thing, talking about world hunger when that wasn't the original statement from Beasly:

"$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don't reach them. It's not complicated,"

TLDR Musk is a faggot and world hunger has no silver bullet.

 

[Realistic Elephant]

How dare Elon Musk interrupt the WFP's lifesaving work! Surely they solved world hunger during the "Fifth Informal Joint Meeting of the FAO Council, IFAD Executive Board and WFP Executive Board" on October 20th or the "Third informal consultation on revised evaluation policy"

Meetings - search results | WFP Executive Board

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It looks like a schedule from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

 

[6thRanger]

I'm not arguing that it's stupid to think the money can solve the issue, but Musk misrepresenting the issue so he can laughingly shrug it off is par for the course with his type of bullshit. Hell, you're doing the same thing, talking about world hunger when that wasn't the original statement from Beasly:

TLDR Musk is a faggot and world hunger has no silver bullet.

Musk is responding to the headline that says it could solve world hunger. Apparently he was misquoted/ misreprsented. The fellow comes back and says the headline is inaccurate and he meant 42 million. I suppose you could argue Musk should read entire articles and research original statements so he can shitpost on Twitter.com, but I think the issue is journalists are complete faggots here as usual. Making it out to be that he deliberately misrepresented it isn't what seems to have happened here.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

world hunger has no silver bullet.

You quickly learn that the problem with ending world hunger is that the people who 'need it the most' are the dumbest, most entitled, fucking wastes of oxygen the world has ever seen.

Now, people in famine zones need help, but you can't trust the local governments, and half the time the famine is their own damn fault anyway.

Sure, it's a transportation/logistics issue as far as food really goes nowadays, but corruption is the biggest part of it.

You want a silver bullet to end world hunger?

Execute everyone in the UN, roll tanks into these regions and shoot every government employee. Go full Rhodesia and King Leopold on all these fucking regions that can't get their shit together because their corrupt shit heads.

The truth?

The REAL silver bullet?

These shit-hole nations had their fucking chance for 6,000 years to get their acts together. Most of them didn't invent the wheel.

Put the fucking Germans in charge of them (Not the French, God, no, not the French and not the US either) or maybe the Russians. Be brutal. Food rations, medical rations. Let these people know that you aren't ever leaving till they can all read at a 5th grade level.

The real silver bullet to end world hunger: Bring back colonialism.

 

[Gar For Archer]

You quickly learn that the problem with ending world hunger is that the people who 'need it the most' are the dumbest, most entitled, fucking wastes of oxygen the world has ever seen.

Now, people in famine zones need help, but you can't trust the local governments, and half the time the famine is their own damn fault anyway.

Sure, it's a transportation/logistics issue as far as food really goes nowadays, but corruption is the biggest part of it.

You want a silver bullet to end world hunger?

Execute everyone in the UN, roll tanks into these regions and shoot every government employee. Go full Rhodesia and King Leopold on all these fucking regions that can't get their shit together because their corrupt shit heads.

The truth?

The REAL silver bullet?

These shit-hole nations had their fucking chance for 6,000 years to get their acts together. Most of them didn't invent the wheel.

Put the fucking Germans in charge of them (Not the French, God, no, not the French and not the US either) or maybe the Russians. Be brutal. Food rations, medical rations. Let these people know that you aren't ever leaving till they can all read at a 5th grade level.

The real silver bullet to end world hunger: Bring back colonialism.

You’re forgetting the REAL real silver bullet: can’t be hungry if you’re dead.