@Quokka I remember this. He explicitly said that world hunger couldn’t be solved for $xBillion (I forget the exact number of billions) but if someone could prove him wrong he’d fund it entirely from his personal wealth. It was meant to be him justifying keeping his billions. Then someone costed it for less than the figure Musk quoted (I think it was the World Health Organisation) and published their plan publicly with costings. Musk didn’t keep his end of the bargain.
Imagine that, you have to be a special kind of cunt to see a plan toend world hunger and not do it. Imagine being the guy that foot the bill, Idk how that didnt sing to a Narcissus brain but okay. These people are fucken ghouls and vampires.
I can’t even think of a expletive strong enough for Musk. Like what was the final number, something like 10% of his net worth or so? Heck even if it was a whopping 50%, he’d still have more than $100bn left. How can anyone say they’re not gonna solve world hunger even tho they could. Fuck it, even if Musk had to give up all of his possessions and end up homeless, he should still do it for the greater good.
(Assuming, naively of course, you can just magically solve world hunger with a few billion dollaridoos)
Oh it wasnt magic, but it was an entire plan that probably would’ve definitely reduced world hunger greatly. But we’ll never know cause imaginary numbers matter more.
Yeah… well… guess we’ll have to keep rounding up our purchases if the rich ain’t gonna do shit. /s
Can we try piñata economics?
so whacking everyone who’s richer than you? that’s just anarchy but with more violence
Piñata implies it is full of something. Not everyone richer than me is full.
Narcissus? You mean the 16 year old who didn’t want to have sex or get married, so Nemesis cursed him to fall in love with his reflection and die?
What’s your problem with aroace kids?
Furthermore if you’re looking for a Greek villain to equate Elon with, choose Theseus. Theseus was a creepy pedophile who got tortured by Hades because he sucked even by Hellenic standards.
And America is his ship
There’s no one exact figure, the total cost would vary a lot based on how you did it. If you’re just buying food it would be about 6-10 billion per year. But just handing out lots of food has economic consequences. The more effective methods of infrastructure investment, and local agricultural and trade development would cost up to $250 billion a year.
He did said that he don’t believe the experts trust worthy. Which make everyone with two brain cells laugh and bully him
And then the market made him the wealthiest human alive.
Elon reading the plan: What’s the rope for?
Worth mentioning that he made it worse by cutting USAID.
“Remember when Elon said” is really low-hanging fruit. There’s like a brazilian things he’s said that are total bullshit.
All he really does is squint to photo cams and pretend he is Tony Stark. So sad…
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Thats just a weird and uninformered though common opinion. Sure, if Elon was in charge he’d just start handing out food and get angry when that doesn’t work. That’s not a solution though in any way. No hate to you this opinion just annoys me
Solving world hunger means expanding food infrustructure. More growing (locally), more distribution, and finally in places moving populations if we want 100% coverage. These are perminent solutions (with maintanance cost, though that would be offset by the economic benefits indirectly). This doesn’t increase food prices, it decreases them.
No though, overpopulation on scale isn’t going to happen. Food deaths are not the most common form of deaths in these countries and population booms only happen at scale after industrialization. Not after food scarcity is removed.
Lastly, one child policies are stupid. Populations should boom post industrialization. They even out in time and if you fuck with that natural system you get massive issues. Any one child policy will cause incredibly fucked up situations while it’s in effect, limit the growth of industry, cause the populance to grow angrier, and long term create unstable generations with wildly disfunctional population statistics. Too many males, disolution of smaller minority groups, and sociatal trauma from the killing of unwanted offspring.
This creates a society where birth characteristics are over-valued.
Lastly, this creates a “bump” generation without the economic boon that comes from the population boost.
One kid policies don’t work, damage society in lasting ways, and the problem they purport to solve isn’t nearly as big as those created by the act.
No, feeding the world would not cause some great disaster, even if its done in a shit way.
Populations wouldn’t explode just from food security, the people would have quite a bit of time before infrustructure degrades far enough to be irreparable.
this shit got me so fucking triggered I had to remove my previous comment. Read Martin Caparros’ book Hunger and say that again.
I don’t believe in killing people or limiting births as a solution to ecological problems.
BUT,
If that’s what you believe in, I just would like to tell you: Killing one American causes the same reduction in carbon emissions as killing ten congonese people. So if you’re gonna be an ecofascist, I just want you to understand which people are living lifestyles most incompatible with life on Earth. Please use that information however you want.
One child policy was used by china with upsides and downsides. They evaded greater suffering doing so but also overdid and parents opted for boys. Interesting though moderators removed my comment here, using their made in china hardware.
Its a fact, “ending worldhunger” would need continuous funding and is not a one-off payment.
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Incase this comment gets deleted, the writer suggests Martin Caparros Hunger: the oldest problem. Great book, wish op was kinder to ensure the reccomendation stays. Not a clue how this comm is on that though
The only proper reaction to such first world supremacism would be a punch in the face, not an angry internet comment, so I had to remove it because that would only embarass the cause and get me banned.
Guy’s literally fucking saying we should keep billions of people starving because he needs his bigmac cheap.
10 calories to produce a calorie of beef. 100 people starving for the price of one American barbeque party. But a man needs his steak.
