{"id":129786,"date":"2021-11-01T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-un-says-6b-from-the-worlds-billionaires-could-solve-a-hunger-crisis-elon-musk-says-he-will-sell-tesla-stock-and-donate-proceeds-if-the-un-can-prove-that"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:22:19","slug":"the-un-says-6b-from-the-worlds-billionaires-could-solve-a-hunger-crisis-elon-musk-says-he-will-sell-tesla-stock-and-donate-proceeds-if-the-un-can-prove-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-un-says-6b-from-the-worlds-billionaires-could-solve-a-hunger-crisis-elon-musk-says-he-will-sell-tesla-stock-and-donate-proceeds-if-the-un-can-prove-that","title":{"rendered":"The UN says $6B from the world\u2019s billionaires could solve a hunger crisis. Elon Musk says he will sell Tesla stock and donate proceeds if the UN can prove that"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I think this might be the answer to the question we\u2019ve all been debating here lately. Provided it ACTUALLY happens, and that it includes others (like Jeff Bezos), and that it happens within a transparent, focused, well structured and effective framework.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the end all be all to wealth inequity, but it IS a good start and could really help us avoid another tribal political dust up and focus on a worthy, positive, and equitable posthuman (or whatever it is that make\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n

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The billionaire Elon Musk said he\u2019d sell Tesla stock and donate the proceeds if the UN could prove that just a tiny percentage of his wealth could save tens of millions of lives.<\/p>\n

Musk was responding to comments by David Beasley, the director of the UN\u2019s World Food Programme, who told CNN\u2019s \u201cConnect the World\u201d<\/a> last week that a $6 billion donation from billionaires such as Musk and Jeff Bezos<\/a> could help 42 million people who he said were \u201cliterally going to die if we don\u2019t reach them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk is the world\u2019s richest man and recently became the first person<\/a> in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a> ever to have an estimated net worth north of $300 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think this might be the answer to the question we\u2019ve all been debating here lately. Provided it ACTUALLY happens, and that it includes others (like Jeff Bezos), and that it happens within a transparent, focused, well structured and effective framework. It\u2019s not the end all be all to wealth inequity, but it IS a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"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-129786","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\/129786","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}