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[LordBaal]

To be fair he asked the FWP to deliver him, in public a program on how that money would solve world hunger for everyone to see first. They never backed up their words with the numbers, or at least not yet. It would be awesome if they did.

[NJW2000]

The WFP never said that they could solve world hunger with that money. They said they could prevent 42 million deaths from starvation with it, iirc, and subsequently set out a plan for that. That's £142 per death prevented, which is pretty astounding when compared to realistic estimates of charitable donation, but possibly hunger deaths are low hanging fruit somehow and it's actually true, I don't know.


Naturally, Elon managed to manipulate people's perceptions there so it looks like the humanitarian NGO is the one that's all talk. It's kinda what he's good at, after all.

[martinuzz]

Yeah, the WFP came with a pretty complete plan, including numbers.

[LordBaal]

Then Elon must have lost a lot of face over this.

[nenjin]

Then Elon must have lost a lot of face over this.

I doubt it. He's basically convinced himself he's Tony Stark, and his businesses are solid. So no, I doubt this meaningfully hurt him. Although I will say that among tech entrepreneurs, he's gone from the golden boy to a shitheel for some.

[Robsoie]

As it seemed odd to me than "only" 6 billions would be required to end world hunger, i googled a bit, and indeed according to this :
https://ceres2030.org/shorthand_story/donors-must-double-aid-to-end-hunger-and-spend-it-wisely/

It's unfortunately a lot more than a single 6 billions $ check from Musk to end world hunger and make sure it does not come back by sustaining local farms and avoid more climatic damage on areas.

And that without taking in account how much of that donated money would disappear in local corruptions, local wars, local terrorism and various kind of thefts :/

But still  6 billions $ would certainly helps a very lot of people that suffer from hunger.

[martinuzz]

To the hungry masses, politicians' only merit is their nutritional value. Hence most poor countries keep getting stuck with corrupt and gluttonous rulers.

[LordBaal]

You are preaching to the choir here pal.

[martinuzz]

Would Maduro taste better with red wine or with white wine?

[scriver]

White wine obviously, he's kinda fishy

[LordBaal]

Ummm deep fried mustache.... did you guys saw his cartoon? Google SuperBigote Mano the Hierro. Is fucking hilarious.

[King Zultan]

Deep fried mustache sounds like strange fair food, you buy from a dirty van next to the dumpsters.


Also I've always thought that Elon guy sounded like an ass.

[Rolan7]

He was the first African to become the "richest" person in the world.  A pity it's mostly due to leveraging capital from his parents, promising impossible projects, and trolling Twitter while (allegedly) trading off the resulting stock swings.

How ironic that SMAC's Nwabudike Morgan would end up being a white south african.

[Starver]

He was the first African to become the "richest" person in the world.

*cough*?

[Vector]

Feels like my brain is melting.

I'm personally asking people who are unvaccinated and can become vaccinated and are reading this, or have relatives in that condition, either get vaxxed or pick those fights if you haven't yet. I can't fucking take any more isolation. We're at almost two years now.