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aussieninja in #hive-167922 • 3 years ago

I think maybe you missed a piece of the puzzle:

To date the World Food Programme hasn't received any donation from Elon.

It wasn't about solving World Hunger, it was about helping countries that are in famine... which is a huge problem in places like Afghanistan right now.

I don't care about Elon buying Twitter, he can do whatever he wants... I personally think it will be good for Hive if he actually does... but liberals weren't losing their minds over him not spending his own money on solving world hunger, more that he didn't do what he said he'd do.... with his own money.

3 years ago in #hive-167922 by aussieninja

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igormuba 3 years ago

Elon Musk was heavily financed by public money at near free interest and tax loopholes. I am not from the USA, so I couldn't care less about them letting rich people burn their money through public funding, but holy shit...

They give Elon Musk public money and insist it is his money because it is spent privately, but if someone asks for funding to help the general public all of a sudden it is public money.

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edicted 3 years ago

This precisely describes the problem.

Musk said "solve world hunger", not "help out for 365 days".
This is not a solution, it's a Band-Aid, and it requires trusting a charity (which is historically foolish).

Again, throwing money at the problem doesn't make the problem go away.
Show me how the food supply is permanently increased forever by this and I will concede.

When someone asks for $6B and follows up with:

It's just a matter of scaling up.

You turn around and run away.
"It's just a matter of doing the hardest thing!"
Like... seriously? He is being serious with that implication? That's alarming.

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aussieninja 3 years ago

Totally understand that point... but 'world hunger' was Elon's words, that initial report was never about solving world hunger, it was about addressing that very immediate threat of 42 million people starving due to the famines hitting their countries.

The problem is that these people will not have access to food because the famines and the solution is to get them good at the cost of $0.43 per day per person. As you said, we have a distribution problem and that report was all about trying to solve that distribution problem. They have the distribution systems in place, but not the funds to make it work at the scale they need.

The scaling up comment was saying that they already have the systems in place to solve the problem... they just need to scale up the amount of food they can provide, that's what the $6B was for.

Did Elon purposely make the issue harder by reframing it? Who knows? All we can say is that he asked for a plan, they gave a plan, and nothing happened.

Anyway, whatever, I don't really care about any of this, I just wanted to provide some context that "Liberals" weren't just making stuff up to lose their minds over.

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edicted 3 years ago

Yeah this is all very reasonable and Elon Musk is a huge cynical troll so there is that.
He should have never even made such a comment because it was so obvious he'd never fork over the money.
It was always going to be exactly how it turned out.

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aussieninja 3 years ago

Honestly, has anyone trolled better than Elon? Sure, other peeps have come up with some hilariously ingenious trolling over the years, but for pure impact Elon has be the world's best troll.

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