Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
You’re misremembering, or lying.
Musk replied to a claim by the UN that 2% of his wealth ($6 billion, at the time) could “solve world hunger”, calling their bluff by saying that if they showed him how that was possible with a detailed, transparent plan, he’d give them the money immediately.
The response Musk got was a massive backpedal, a plan that described helping world hunger, not ending/“solving” it, and only for one year.
Bluff was successfully called.
As in “if you can provide a perfect solution to a very complex global problem in 140 characters or less then I’ll see what’ I can find in my couch”. I can make that promise too, difference being that no one will try to defend me for being pedantic and just think that I’m an idiot.
A URL linking to a fully fleshed-out plan can be linked in much less than 140 characters, you’re being deliberately obtuse, and also evading the main issue I pointed out, that their response was a colossal backpedal from their initial sensational claim.
CNN.
He word-for-word demanded detailed explanation on a twitter thread, not linked document. Also, even if the proposal give might not have solved the world hunger crisis that amount of work would have made him the biggest benefactor on the planet by a pretty decent margin and there would be statues of him around and schools would teach about that single event. But no, the plan wasn’t immediately perfect so he just ditched it and left 42 million (and who knows how many more due to multiplier effects) people on their own fate.
But I guess ‘bluff’ was called and everyone clapped their hands.
You are definitely not beating the “deliberately obtuse” allegations.
In no way did Musk insist that the entire plan be tweeted in plain text as tweets, and no reasonable person would consider putting a link to X (pardon the pun) in a Twitter thread as not counting as ‘putting X in a Twitter thread’.
“not linked document” is literally a lie, why would you think it wouldn’t be identified as such, when his exact words are so readily available?
Thinking about this tho…he’d probably do it. He’s a narcissist, it would boost his ego immensely and give him even more of a platform to stand on and pretend he’s good and funny internet guy
There’s a line of people who would do that if someone could craft a fool-proof plan to end world hunger. That’s big enough ego boost for many, problem is just that there is no such solution which would need just a boatload of money to complete. World Food Program gave him a reasonable proposal which would’ve made an absolutely life changing difference for millions of people but that wasn’t good enough for him.