It was recently announced that Elon Musk is now worth around $300 billion, which had some people on social media calling for the Tesla founder to help end world hunger.
UN’s World Food Program's director David Beasley has called on Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to "step up now" and end world hunger. Beasley added, "Six billion dollars to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don’t reach them. It’s not complicated."
Musk then responded to Beasley on Twitter, writing, "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it." He added, "But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent."
Beasley then responded, "$6 billion will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate crises." The two continued to exchange messages, which you can read in full above.
