{"id":129748,"date":"2021-10-31T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/teslas-elon-musk-responds-to-un-world-food-program-directors-call-to-solve-world-hunger"},"modified":"2021-10-31T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:22:19","slug":"teslas-elon-musk-responds-to-un-world-food-program-directors-call-to-solve-world-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/teslas-elon-musk-responds-to-un-world-food-program-directors-call-to-solve-world-hunger","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk responds to UN World Food Program director\u2019s call to \u201csolve world hunger\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few days ago, United Nations World Food Program (WFP) director David Beasley told CNN<\/em> that a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals such as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could help solve world hunger with just a fraction of their net worth. Musk\u2019s net worth currently stands at $311 billion<\/a> thanks to a recent rally in TSLA stock, effectively making the CEO the world\u2019s wealthiest individual today.<\/p>\n

While speaking at CNN\u2019s Connect the World<\/a><\/em> with Becky Anderson, Beasley called for billionaires to \u201cstep up now, on a one-time basis.\u201d He also noted that even just 2% of Musk\u2019s current net worth could solve world hunger. This translates to roughly about $6 billion. \u201c$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don\u2019t reach them. It\u2019s not complicated,\u201d the UN WFP director said.<\/p>\n

Musk has now responded to Beasley\u2019s statements. While responding to a post on Twitter which highlighted that the UN World Food Program actually raised $8.4 billion in 2,020 Musk noted that if the WFP could explain exactly how $6 billion would solve world hunger, then he would be more than willing to sell some TSLA stock<\/a> right now. This is a key point as most of Musk\u2019s net worth is tied to his majority stake in Tesla. This means that for Musk to have $6 billion in cash, he\u2019d have to sell TSLA stock, which would then be taxed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, United Nations World Food Program (WFP) director David Beasley told CNN that a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals such as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could help solve world hunger with just a fraction of their net worth. Musk\u2019s net worth currently stands at $311 billion thanks to a recent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1506,269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-food","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}