elon musk is offering to sell some of his tesla stock if the united nations
can show that six billion dollars would help to alleviate world hunger
now before i give you the details of the story let me just note that there are two different things
going on okay on one hand you have elon musk who's consistently crying about having to pay taxes
to a country that provided the seed money for tesla and many of his uh business ventures that
have made it fabulously wealthy but that's not what this story is about this story is about the
un world food program its director david beasley was recently on cnn and he specifically called out
elon musk and other tremendously wealthy americans and essentially called on them to do their part in
donating money to this organization to alleviate world hunger let's hear what he had to say
u.s billionaires alone have gotten over a trillion dollars richer during the pandemic
you're asking those billionaires who are going to space the likes of elon musk and jeff bezos
to help are they helping the governments are tapped out and this is why and this is when
that the billionaires need to step up now on a one-time basis six billion dollars to help 42
million people that are literally going to die if we don't reset it's not complicated
and this is what's heartbreaking i'm not asking them to do this every day every week every year
we have a one-time crisis a perfect storm of conflict climate change and coving it's a one-time
phenomenon i've got 43 nations with 42 million people in ipc level 4 knocking on family's door
just help me with them one time that's a 6 billion price tag jeff bezos's net worth increase just
last year during kobe was 64 billion i'm just asking for 10 of your net worth increase just last
week elon musk had a 6 billion net worth increase one day one day so there's obviously uh some truth
to what beasley's saying uh but you know the world food program has some issues which i'll get to in
just a second following that interview uh they put out a tweet saying a one-time donation from the
top 400 billionaires in the united states could help save the lives of 42 million people this year
now uh in response to that elon musk tweeted this if the world food program can describe
on its twitter thread on this twitter thread exactly how 6 billion will solve world hunger
i will sell tesla stock right now and do it and so he's challenging them because there is concern
that some of that funding some of those donations are misappropriated right and there is some truth
behind that there are also some issues with beasley which i'll get to in just a second
so for instance in 2019 funding was a record eight billion dollars of which the largest
donors were the united states at 3.4 billion and germany at 886.6 million contributions were
insufficient to cover identified needs of food insecure populations with a funding gap of 4.1
billion dollars and that's according to the world food program annual performance report
so uh they obviously raised a lot of money in 2019 and uh their analysis of that was it wasn't
enough so it's just interesting to hear beasley say like no just this one time donation of six
billion dollars would like change everything um now six billion dollars he claims will not
solve world hunger this is beasley but it will prevent geopolitical instability mass migration
focus on that for a second and save 42 million or i'm sorry 42 million people from the brink
of starvation an unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to covet slash conflict
slash climate crisis now he likes to focus a lot on um migration and uh the migration
crisis because he was actually tapped by the trump administration to lead the world food program uh
specifically to end migration to the united states that was a huge part of the reason why trump chose
him um i have more details about it in just a second but jake you want to jump in yeah look
um in a sense both are right and both are wrong uh elon musk is being incredibly obnoxious by saying
oh give me all your accounting on this twitter thread me me me me if you actually wanted to
solve world hunger you'd reach out privately and say is that really true can i see the documents
i'm not looking to publicly embarrass you but if it's it really can be done and you can convince
me i'd be happy to do it if i was in his position two percent of your net wealth you still look guys
it's nearly impossible to spend one billion in your lifetime he has over 200 billion i mean it is
it's the how selfish it is for not just musk but bezos and so many of the others to not do it it's
indescribably greedy okay now that doesn't mean that the organization is right or its leadership
is right so anna more details yeah so um as foreign policy reported so beasley has struggled
to win over some career staff at the agency's rome headquarters who felt he hewed too closely
to u.s foreign policy and handed out perks such as business class flights to geneva in violation
of the world food program policy to members of its inner circle or his inner circle um so
look i i do have an issue with too much reliance on like ngos and these types of organizations to
end massive crises that should be dealt with by governments right so in the case
of the united states what i find really really interesting is the world food program because
of the fact that the united states has so much control over it right because it donates
a pretty significant portion of its funding it basically insists on the agriculture being
purchased from the united states as opposed to the farmers in the countries where they're trying
to alleviate hungry and you know what that does that screws over like the farmers right
they get basically priced out of the market as a result of that so they're actually doing some harm
in the way that they carry out their their charity work um and then as uh jonathan larson over at tyt
investigates reported recently while assuring musk of transparency because he did respond to musk and
claimed he claimed that he would be transparent beasley didn't mention the role he has played out
of the public eye as a leader inside the family a purposely opaque organization with a history
of smuggling evangelical protestantism including homophobia and misogyny in charitable packages
the family also serves as a networking hub for right-wing activists working to roll back
lgbtq and reproductive rights yes so look the problem here is it's um and i'll say that even of
what we're telling you here in our reporting um it is relatively easy to pick apart any
program in this case this is a trump appointee and they're forcing people to give money to american
through the american government the critique is 100 valid okay having said that um
greedy pricks like elon musk go around going well the government shouldn't do it i don't want you
to raise my taxes no way no no way you just rely on charity then you go okay then why don't you
give me the charge oh hell no oh unless you give me all the salaries and i humiliate you publicly
and then use it as an excuse not to give it to you right i'm not going to give it to you i was
going to give it to you but i'm not because of this this this you got a lot of bs excuses elon
you're full of crap okay you're enormously full of crap you're hoarding all of that money and you're
you're one of you're literally the greediest person on earth
and your buddy jeff bezos that you guys are having some sort of measuring contest with oh yeah my
rocket looks more like a penis we all see it you morons you think you're so smart because you have
all this money and you build giant fallacies to go into space and we're starving down here
and you go oh yeah you have the government do it but don't have the government do it
have me do but don't have me do it haha you never got any of the money did you we cook it
all you can't bury it with you even if you built a giant tomb what the hell are you gonna do with 200
billion dollars guys if you're not rich because we're not none of us are rich you you but i know
wealthy folks okay and i know what that like it's uh and you don't chris rock said it chris rock
said it if poor people knew how much money rich people have there'd be a revolution overnight
okay they have it's so much money you cannot spend a billion dollars unless you're buying a sports
team you cannot spend 1 billion let alone 200 billion you our minds cannot comprehend how much
money that is and that greedy little prick elon musk sits there going no mine mine you've turned
into gollum and you don't even realize it so oh have fun on twitter making fun of poor people
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