Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down

Thing is, there's multiple billionaires who could afford to do it for 6bn and they're not doing it either, so every time we talk about billionaires it should be mentioned that they have the power to end most of humanity's suffering but decide not to do it.
- Yeah. For a long time I defended Musk, for the simple reason that, yes, he's weird and seems like a sociopath, but at least he's trying. He wants electric cars. He wants Mars. That's enough. Most billionaires just want an invite to Epstein's island, or to displace a village somewhere to build a new factory.
  Those days have ended, now that it's become clear that Musk wants an entire Epstein's-Island enclave just for himself and his "family," and actively works to destroy people who are working on electric cars if they interfere with his quest to get all the credit for everything.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRjVH66vdQ
  
  I'm in a similar boat. Seems like there was a big marketing / branding push for him to be seen that way in those years, or maybe it was just media doing media stuff (regurgitating and iterating on successful content). And then I stopped paying attention to him, and then he made weird ass comments during that cave rescue situation, and then it's been just rapid fire incidents ranging from embarrassingly childish to shockingly brazen leading to today. Apologies if I've misremembered the timeline, but I seem to remember that as my "wait wtf" turning point with him.
  Went from thinking "huh, smart driven guy working on difficult problems few others will" to realizing he's among the most threatening forces working against humanity today, while also a thin-skinned man-baby. Pretty crazy swing. If he'd have kept his crazy under wraps...like...just literally didn't spew it on social media constantly, that one change alone...we'd probably never have realized.
  
  "he wants Mars"
  All experts agree that being interested in Mars because we want to put boots on the ground is moronic.
- Many of them are rich because they cause the suffering you're asking them to relieve.

I never forgot. I love this meme so much.

why just 'end world hunger' when you can 'end the world', instead?
- It’s simple! Feed a man for a day and he’ll just be hungry tomorrow… Starve a man to death and he’ll never need to eat again!
- Build a man a fire and he's warm for the night, set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
- Technically, ending the world DOES end world hunger.

Scarcity is is essential to capitalism.
Many do die as capitalists literally destroy food to maintain scarcity.
I can only surmise that humans are largely happy with this arrangement, with vulnerable humans dying to maintain oligarch profit/metastasis expectations, because the global capital markets haven't been burned to the ground for their relentless and celebratory sociopathic inhumanity. 🤷
Friendly reminder, don't forget to shake your fist at your local homeless encampment on the way to work for lowering your local property values with their continued inconvenient existence!
- American corn is a colonization tool.

Did this happen? I find it believable, but seek confirmation.
- https://www.abc10.com/article/news/verify/business-verify/elon-musk-indicated-2021-to-donate-6-billion-to-fighting-solving-world-hunger-if-un-met-conditions/536-cad0e59e-775d-4c3d-a309-b3ef93379a71
  
  Post this in the op or as a comment. It's not exactly as portrayed, but still didn't change the fact that he could help 42 million people with hunger and he basically brushed it off
- https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/11/elon-musk-un-world-hunger-famine/

I have a plan to end world hunger, though I don't know if there's enough elon to go around.
- That’s okay. If we run out, we can then use his billions to feed the rest.

Ending World Hunger is SOCIALISM!
-Americans trying to Save The Children!
- The Children:

I might not be good for much. But bringing this up whenever he is mentioned is easy. Will do 🫡

Can still do it. For less than the price he paid to buy Trump...

Can we please have that gravestone rather sooner than later?
- Be the change you want to see.

I have no love for Musk, but I remember this not being as clear cut at the time. Unicef was tweeting at Musk to stir up some drama (I assume) not really expecting him to reply (I think the head Unicef guy later said something to the effect of "its a big deal they even got a reply"). So when he did reply and everyone started going crazy asking for details....they kind of floundered for a bit. When they eventually shared some details, It was basically just more of what Unicef was already doing. Not that's a bad thing, but it was far cry from 'solving' world hunger (at least it was compared to twitters interpretation of was solved meant). Unicef looked a bit silly for claiming that they could 'solve' world hunger and Musk walked away looking like an ass for being dismissive towards charity in general.
- This is pretty much entirely factually incorrect.
  https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/04/26/elon-musk-hunger/
  Unicef was tweeting at Musk
  Incorrect. CNN noted that it would only take a fraction of Musk's wealth to "solve" world hunger.
  Musk then took it to Twitter, which started the Twitter conversation.
  to stir up some drama (I assume)
  Yeah, because Unicef is known for being childish and liking to "stir up drama" on Twitter. It's practically synonymous with their mission, and they have a habit of
  You get the idea. I don't think I need to continue point by point.
  
  Incorrect. CNN noted that it would only take a fraction of Musk’s wealth to “solve” world hunger. Musk then took it to Twitter, which started the Twitter conversation.
  fair enough.
  Yeah, because Unicef is known for being childish and liking to “stir up drama” on Twitter. It’s practically synonymous with their mission, and they have a habit of
  You kind of split up my comment, but the 'I assume' was for the whole statement. When I first encountered this story, it was very much centered around a twitter thread. But you have point, this did unfairly frame Unicef in my comment.
  Thank you for the snoops link. TIL
  That said, I dont think the rest of my comment was to far off what people took away from the story at the time. The CNN page has a correction at the bottom for what the headline was at the time. It did say 'solve' (not 'help solve') at the time which would have fed into peoples opinion of Unicefs follow up and really driven the narative (which is unfortunate).
  But your post (or wolf840's post?) definitly frames this as there was a defacto solution to end world hunger and Musk bought twitter instead. Which is also not a fair representation of what happend. Even the snoops page you linked says that.