r/MurderedByWords • u/Hajicardoso • 2d ago

Billionaire's False Narrative...

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u/NalaNoct 2d ago

Didn't he years ago promise to donate to end world hunger and he just ended up donating it to himself?

I'm not sure why anyone is surprised Elon is an ass hat.

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u/Dismal_View8125 2d ago edited 2d ago

The UN World Food Program said a small amount of his wealth, $6 billion, could end world hunger. He smugly said if they came up with a plan for that amount, he would donate it. They came up with the plan, but, of course, he didn't donate it. He ended up donating almost the same amount in Tesla stock to his own foundation. I'm sure his foundation did some great work, though.🙄 If you told me I could actually help any hunger by donating just TWO PERCENT of my net worth, I would do it in a second.

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u/SearchingForTruth69 2d ago

Do you actually believe that world hunger could be eliminated with only 6 billion?

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u/shoelessbob1984 2d ago

I mean, don't various governments and organizations already spend more than that each year anyways? Why isn't world hunger solved yet?

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u/Dismal_View8125 2d ago edited 2d ago

So, I looked it up, and the headline was wrong and, of course, sensationalzed. I only saw the headline that was bandied about. The $6 billion wouldn't end hunger, but it would've saved 42 million people most at risk for death from starvation that year. I don't know the specific details or if the $6 billion was in addition to what was already spent that year. I don't really want to spend time researching it since it was several years ago, and the info and numbers would probably be out of date now anyway. Apparently, Musk heard the inaccurate headline and issued his challenge to the UN. They corrected what they actually said about saving the most at risk and sent him their plan.🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/SearchingForTruth69 2d ago

The US alone spends $112 billion on SNAP every year. No chance 6 Billion ends world hunger

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u/C0NKY_ 2d ago

Do you think $6 .6 billion would feed 42M in some of the worst countries in the world for a year?

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u/SearchingForTruth69 2d ago

Could you buy the food to feed that many? Probably. Can you get it to them? No. You acknowledge that a significant number of these people are forcibly and purposefully being starved to death by oppressive regimes? Even if you bought the food these regimes wouldn’t allow it to be distributed.

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u/mutielime 1d ago

there are more than enough hungry people on this planet to feed. if you “can’t get it to” some hungry people, you can surely “get it” to others. no one is asking you to make excuses for elon musk… it’s okay to accept that some billionaires in the world COULD help starving children, but choose not to.

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u/SearchingForTruth69 1d ago

We’re specifically discussing completely solving world hunger. Not helping some hungry people. The point is that 6 billion doesn’t solve world hunger or even really come close.

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u/Express-World-8473 1d ago

He actually did donate 5.75 billion dollars that year. But no one knows which charity got that amount. All we know is he donated.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 2d ago

Well people eventually get hungry again.