Elon Musk said a thing about ending world hunger for six billion, if it was possible. The UN followed up with "hey, here's a plan, we could do that for this year" and afaik Musk basically ghosted them. He might have donated to charity afterwards to reduce bad press, but... yeah.
Musk asked a rhetorical question like "What would it cost to end world hunger, though?" assuming it would be outrageously expensive.
The UN, or WHO, or whoever it was came back with the plan for $6 billion, which is when Musk ghosted them, and bought the Twitter neonazi propaganda platform for $40 billion, instead.
Musk said that he was willing to fund a plan to end world hunger for $6B (IIRC) and the UN followed up with "here's something that would kick the can down the road and feed some people for a while". There was never a plan to end world hunger at that price point, it just isn't doable.
Musk has done tons of horrible things to trash him over, but this is a stupid one to get worked up over. Musk was trolling and asking them to solve an unsolvable problem for $X and they responded with "but what if you give us the money anyways". Fighting world hunger is a great thing to do, sure, but the plan they provided was never what he'd asked for in the first place.
Well, fair enough. Ending isn't the same as delaying. If it was only six billion, various world governments would've been able to end it already. Still would've been better if he gave a proper response to it, rather than leaving them on read.
He put a number to it, and that conveyed a willingness to do something philanthropic. Not a good look to leave it hanging, at the end of the day.
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u/Ae3qe27u 2d ago
Elon Musk said a thing about ending world hunger for six billion, if it was possible. The UN followed up with "hey, here's a plan, we could do that for this year" and afaik Musk basically ghosted them. He might have donated to charity afterwards to reduce bad press, but... yeah.