Comment on It's never been about helping people

areakode@riskeratspizza.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Last I heard he NEGATED $43.8 Billion dollars of aid by cutting USAID, causing the deaths of 4.5 Million Children around the world.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger?

  The U.N. World Food Programme feeds over 100 million people facing severe hunger in more than 120 countries and territories every year. In 2021, WFP did this with a budget of $9.6 billion dollars, which was still $5.2 billion dollars short of their total funding requirements. Clearly, ending world hunger will require more money.

  Back in July of 2021, former U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley mentioned it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

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  • kettuli@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But you see the billionaires don’t have any money, just a number they keep pumping up.

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    • khornechips@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They don’t have any money, except when they do. They have all kinds of money for stock buybacks and bribes to government officials but when it comes to paying taxes suddenly there’s no liquidity.

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  • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s still only $360b. We could do that with only a portion of the wealth of ONE MAN.

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• BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just for perspective, a person who invested in the stock market recently and got a 5% return would be said to be investing poorly.

  5% may not seem like much, but just for comparison, 5% of a trillion dollars is 50 billion dollars. I think you can see the point. Musk could solve world hunger, and it would be like chump change to him, even if he did fairly poorly with his investments. He wouldn’t even have to touch his savings.

  He’s refusing to help people whose lives are being ruined without that help, or who are dying, even though the only penalty for Musk is that he would be getting inconceivably richer at a slightly slower rate.

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  • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s like he’s sitting on a mountain of life preservers amid an ocean of drowning people

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• OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Its not merely about money. Ending food scarcity in remote locations is big part of the problem. It’s a transportation issue of goods economically. We need to centralize humanity and not try to deliver food to example tribes in deep Africa. We have the food production and waste a good portion of food that we throw out.

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