Musk offers $6 bil if U.N. shows how it will solve world hunger

To solve world hunger you need less people or more food.

Meat is off the table if you want to cut emissions at the same time

So that leaves aggriculture, make more farms without cutting down trees. But what about housing?

You cannot have all these things at the same time therefore population reduction is the answer nobody wants to face.

well done Elon.

that’s one way to shut down people trying to spend your money.

Good for Musk.

Over to you UN. Can they prove this can be achieved without half the cash going to red tape, crooked Africans, and hugely paid UN executives?

Less mouths to feed now because of COVID.

Musk is a scammer,he sell less cars than GM or Ford, no way is his fortune, but paper wealth

One way to guarantee the $6B will help world hunger is to NOT give it to the UN. Wonder what Beasley is making in his post anyway? Being a scold seems to be a lucrative profession these days.

YrralToday 09:15 am JST

Musk is a scammer,he sell less cars than GM or Ford, no way is his fortune, but paper wealth

I don't know, the Falcons and my coworker's Tesla seem quite real.

Good for Musk.

Over to you UN. Can they prove this can be achieved without half the cash going to red tape, crooked Africans, and hugely paid UN executives?

Exactly.

Just a small proportion of the money raised to help the poor actually reaches the needy that the money is meant for. Most of it vanishes as fat salaries and amenities of staffs of these organizations.

Two words. Population control. It is just that simple.

With that condition in place Musk can safely hold on to his money.

Bill Gates is using his $150 billion to help others.

Thats an incredible amount of money. We could expect to see some very obvious and tangible results. But we don’t.

Strange isn’t it?

Can anybody really solve the problem of world hunger? It's more of a running battle that never ends. As Jesus said in the bible, "The poor you will always have with you."

Thus, it seems rather arrogant for Musk to make a boastful challenge like this on what is an impossible challenge. It will take constant giving and charity from those who have (like it or not) and giving to those less fortunate from one generation to the next. There's no silver bullet.

that organization said if they only could get 6 billion they could solve world hunger.

Elon correctly mentioned that they had 8 billion dollars donated, yet we still have world hunger.

There was not really a coherent response to that. If Bill Gates giving out all this money, go ask him.

World hunger in the balance of unattainable SDG's as deferred to by climate scientists cannot be verified if one does not give due attention to a yet to be established number of factors ( i.e. methane leakage recently observed from outer space). Emphasis on such can only be had through words of mustela ermenia or nivalis and such.

Bill Gates is putting up over a 100 billion. Musk is simply show boating to get publicity. I forsee him making an attempt at public office in the future. He is a more dangerous trump like leader!

Buyer Beware!

Elon Musk paid less than $70,000 in federal income taxes between 2015 and 2017, and he did not pay anything in 2018.

So what's your point? and what are you doing about hunger?

This is why I love this guy! Stealing money from others will never fix the problem of the poor, it hasn’t done so in 4,000 years and will never going forward, the poor will always be amongst us. Only economic opportunities will help elevate people, not taking from the wealthy and that’s why Musk put his offer to the challenge and let’s see what these people do, I guess nothing as usual other than more bloviating.

I hope Musk does what every smart person with money does, hide it in various places. With as much money as organizations get they should have more than enough money to take care of hundreds of poor nations easily and yet they always begging for more and more money from the rich and never can take care what they promise.

Musk is an idiot.

We ran food cafes, free food kitchens, food banks, organic food supply chains. Baked bread. Food co-operatives. Raised money for projects for the needy.

I genuinely mean this: you are a hero.

The main business, Tesla is producing a luxury items for wealthy people. An electric car costs $28,000 to manufacture but sells for $50,000.

In 2021, $50K for a car is not a "luxury item for wealthy people". Its very reasonable.

Paying a fair share of taxes is not stealing money from people.

Yeah, the left keeps saying that. Lol

.Only a total of 110,000 people globally work for Musk.

Ok. So what’s your point? He is under zero obligation to pay for anyone other than his required taxes.

The main business, Tesla is producing a luxury items for wealthy people. An electric car costs $28,000 to manufacture but sells for $50,000.

Yes, so if you have to ask, then you can’t afford it and shouldn’t buy one or get a better job or wait until you can buy one or get something else, something more affordable.

So now you are advocating criminal actions by suggesting Musk should hide his wealth?

That’s your definition, not mine.

So you have little empathy for the poor and needy and hungry?

I do, but only for serious unfortunate ones that have absolutely no way to make it because of a disability or sickness or people that became poor through no fault of their own.

But refusing to work no matter what the job pays, mooching off the government in any capacity instead of willing to contribute to the workforce (which surprisingly that number is growing by the day) I have zero tolerance or sympathy for those people.

There are massive food wastes in rich countries. Americans throw out 30-40% of their food.

Not just America, look at China or even Japan, but putting that aside, I worry And sympathize for Americans that have done that guess and contribute to society and if they need help and as I said before, I would, but other than that I won’t.

You have stated you pay your fair share of income taxes at 22%. What is wrong in expecting the same of all citizens?

I believe and support a flat tax.

Super-rich people like Musk use the tax loopholes to avoid paying a fair share.

Yes and why should they not?

It was your point. The super-rich creates jobs.

Creating jobs and handing out money that the government wants, because it can’t spend taxpayer money wisely and now they have to subsidize that by spooning off the rich, I don’t support that at all.

*No, it is not.

Yes, it is, again that is your definition.

Suggesting Musk should hide his wealth is also suggesting he should commit a Federal crime.

I never said I suggested anything.

All Americans are required to fill out an annual tax return.

Did Al Sharpton pay the $8 million in back taxes he owed?. 

*The post is about the poor of the world,

I already explained my position.

*Again you are victim-blaming

You’re making excuses now

*That is also true. The biggest food waste is in America but there are others like Japan, which at least is trying to reduce the waste.

The same goes for the US

His statement came after U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley challenged Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and other billionaires in a CNN interview last week, calling on them to step up on “a one-time basis” to help end starvation.

That was a pretty brilliant response by Musk to Beasley childish talking point. He hit it spot on. Yep, lets wait if Beasly has another idea than just "give it to the UN".

So someone planning to colonize Mars is actually having trouble understanding how 6billions could be used against world hunger. Is he expecting Mars inhabitant to call an Ubereat ?

Or perhaps he forgot to do his homework and is expecting UN to actually explain to him how to solve the little issue that Mars inhabitant will need food and water.

And as pointed before : explaining on Twitter like in what 300 characters.

Is he an idiot ?

"I hope Musk does what every smart person with money does, hide it in various places."

Yes, I said it.

Hiding money from the Feds and State for the sake of avoiding taxes is a crime.

Not if they pay their taxes which they do unless your Bezos.

Using the $6B to fuel cooking fires would do more to alleviate world hunger than giving it to the UN.

As for taxes, the top 1% of earners in the US already pay 40% of the federal taxes. The problem isn't tax, it is spending. Government spending has become out of control. Government has become a "make work" project for people who couldn't get a job flipping burgers in the private sector.

Which is why trying to get more money out of the super rich is an exercise in futility. They can hire smarter lawyers and accountants than the government can. European countries have been experimenting with various wealth taxes since the 1990s, and most have been failures. In France, for example, the wealth tax gained the government only 2% additional revenue, but caused 60,000 rich people to flee the country. In the end it wound up causing revenue to DECLINE by 7 billion Euro per year.

Can't tax your way out of fiscal problems. You either have to grow the economy and/or reduce spending.

Elon is living proof that one person can indeed have too much money.

That is nothing more than an Urban Myth a fact-checks busts width open.

Uh-huh…lol…

the only reason you would suggest the super-rich hide their money is to avoid taxes.

I didn’t, I just said, Musk should never allow the government to take his money.

I actually paid no American taxes between 2015 and the present day. I am not a billionaire like Elon, but just as smart. Follow the laws. There is nothing wrong with it as Bassfunk has noted.

By the way Zichi, one of my friends here through email noted that you were a prolific artist selling world wide? Did you file US tax forms as required if you were selling stateside? No need to answer, just want to make sure everyone is doing their share.

zichiToday  11:03 am JST

Elon Musk paid less than $70,000 in federal income taxes between 2015 and 2017, and he did not pay anything in 2018.

That was a pretty brilliant response by Musk to Beasley childish talking point. He hit it spot on. Yep, lets wait if Beasly has another idea than just "give it to the UN".

What is your suggestion for solving global hunger without money?