What was the figure? All it would take to end world hunger is 500 billion or something like that? Half one person's weath?
What sort of person has that amount and decides not to end world hunger.
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The same kind of person that steals a trillion from society in the first place
The same kind of person who ends government programs that help those hungry people, killing hundreds of thousands of them
Musk said he could do it with six billion.
Naturally, he didn’t even try.
Hunger is a political problem, not a money problem. You can't just say "here are X billion dollars, let's end world hunger". Having said that, the system that allows people like Musk to get that rich, is also the same system that creates hunger.
Here in the good ole USA money and politics are the same thing. If you have the political will, you can get the money and if you have the money, you can but the political will.
That said, didn’t Elmo have a beef with the fucking United Nations because he said he’d pay the 6 or 7 billion to end world hunger if the could prove that it’s possible and then they produced a detailed plan and he quibbled and but-akshually’ed his way to a reneg because he never intended to do jack shit for anyone other than himself?
Probably, but if you started with 500B vs 0 I'm guessing one will have a better result.
In a capitalism-controlled world, political problems are money problems.
Not defending this worthless sack of shit but I'm certain he doesn't actually have that much money
I mean it’s all tied up in stocks and if he wanted to liquidate it, all he’d lose control over all his companies and the sudden sell off would collapse the company stocks and probably destroy the world economy.
It looks very impressive on paper though.
He can take out loans using the made up money as collateral without ever paying taxes on it.
Someone should dare Elon to do this.
They did.
in 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-solve-world-hunger
except it was 1/6 of his worth (6.6b$) instead of half, and we he did nothing they left the plan public and called for wny other billionaires to do it.
And since you're hearing about it here, guess who stepped up to do it?
Somebody?
Somebody2152 perhaps?
What it would really take to end world hunger is massive systemic change that’s actually pretty straight-forward but is fought by every single person who loves a deaperate workforce and their insane conservative followers who believe that their greatest enemy is a hungry person.
It was $6B he offered
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I don't consider him a trillionaire. The stock he holds is of an unprofitable company. If he tried to hold a trillion dollars in his hands by cashing out on the stock, it would plummet, who would buy that at that price without the hype? If he cant hold a trillion dollars in his hands, how can he be a trillionaire? Its purely speculative.
It's like some ancient king claiming to be a trillionaire because a lot of people believe that there's a ton of gold in his kingdom - without good evidence. There's no guarantee he'd be able to mine enough gold to become a trillionaire, so why call him that?
When it comes to leveraged loans for buyouts, it's the same difference.
It's not, not even close. He's worth a trillion because investors are investing in him. If he tried to sell everything the 350p/e stocks would go to 20 instantly making him only with 10 billion. He still owes 40 billion on Twitter.
He would be bankrupt overnight if he tried to sell it all
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Amazing how in the two years since Trump took office for his second term, his wealth has grown 5x.
Five. Fucking. Times.
He was worth scantly less than 200B back in 2024.
In 2025, he went up to 342B. What is that like 75%?
And how 3x since last year.
Man everyone thought he was crazy for buying twitter. Him, Zuck, Bezos, and Ellison need to be first in line for the guillotines.
He's worth that much because we inflated his stocks and are rushing in to buy them. Not because he is doing anything different in those 5 yrs.
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That's almost 1.3 million per homeless person or 55k for 18 million people to eat
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The difference between a billion dollars and a trillion dollars is roughly a trillion dollars...
I remember when the National debt in the US was 7 trillion, and people were talking about it at the time about how enormous that number was, and how people couldn't conceptualize it. Now we have a singular person in our midst who could singlehandedly clear up 14% of that. And our current national debt is like 40 trillion now?
What's funny is that $1,000,000,000,000 is enough to give 18,000,000 families of four $35,000 (slightly above the us poverty live for a family of four), and still have over $350,000,000,000 left.
Edit: maybe funny isn't the right word....
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Or the fucking millions that just lost healthcare for billionaires to have more tax breaks
May the same worms eat him.
The Billionaires have captured the system and the average person has no awareness or care.
It's not a moral failure, its a systematic failure; everybody suffers
I don't know what this person is on about. "Doing nothing"? In the last year and a half several steps have been taken to make the lives of those 771k and 18mil peoples much worse.
His efforts and contributions to kill us-aid has actively killed people.
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If you use twitter you are directly to blame. Stop upvoting twitter repost, upvote serious posts that calls out elon musk not memes.
Monopoly the game was invented to describe literally this
When y'all gonna flip the board
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What is she referring to when she says “changed the rules?” The rules of basic human decency, or something more concrete?
The ipo rules, they were going to ignore a bunch of rules and just go but I heard they changed their minds and will actually apply the rules so the spacex ipo shouldn't be anytime soon. Same for anthropic and openai.
Edit: I think the s&p500 specifically.
I would assume it refers to lots of things, starting with this:
and then things like the corporate tax rate, capital gains, inheritance, lack of anti trust enforcement, reducing labor protections, deregulations, wide spread wage theft, regulatory capture, etc. etc.
Like , you can say 'what rules? ' and there's no one rule or set of rules that changed to enable a trillionaire, but there have been a plethora of systemic changes to favor those in power over time, and allow for more exploitation and less accountability.
That may or may not be what she's referring to, but it's how I take it.
all those times when I said we should just kill him and people kept saying that it would just go to his kids or other people. well now it's way way more.
The world seems to be owned by Musk, and he really REALLY doesn't like poor people. This is the same klepto grifter who suggested a political party for only the middle class.
“I have a hemorrhoid. It’s like an infected blood vessel on your ass. I’m nine years old, and I have a hemorrhoid, Stan. I have a hemorrhoid, and, Cartman has his own theme park.”
Millions are homeless and starving, but hey someone got a trilly!
I think they're leaving out a whole lot of homeless, there's no way it's only 770K
That's the US number
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