Elon Musk challenge: ‘If I can say exactly how $ 6 billion will save the world from hunger, I will sell Tesla shares and do it immediately’

Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has challenged the comment of a United Nations leader that just a fraction of the wealth of the world’s richest people is enough. can solve hunger across the planet.

Specifically, Musk responded to the comments of Mr. David Beasley – Director of the United Nations World Food Program through a tweet.

Earlier, Mr. David Beasley said: “$6 billion to help 42 million people who are starving. It’s not difficult. Billionaires need to do it now.” The “billionaires” that Mr. Beasley is referring to here are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos… – the richest people in the world.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a fortune of nearly $289 billion according to Bloomberg statistics. That means Beasley is pitching the idea that Elon Musk only needs to spend about 2% of his fortune to help lift 42 million people worldwide out of hunger.

In response, Musk said that if the World Food Program used a transparent and open accounting method so that everyone could see how the money was spent, “it can be described just below the This tweet is exactly how $6 billion can solve hunger, I will sell Tesla stock immediately and do it.”

Musk is currently the CEO of the world’s largest electric vehicle company, which last week officially hit the $1 trillion market cap.

$6 billion is only a fraction of Elon Musk’s $311 billion fortune. In October alone, his fortune increased to $9.3 billion according to Bloomberg statistics.

Despite being the richest billionaire in the world, Elon Musk’s philanthropy is said to be unremarkable. Forbes magazine recently had a ranking of billionaires (Forbes 400) based on the ratio of charitable donations to total assets. And the results were surprising.

The two richest billionaires in the world today, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, only donate 1% of their total wealth to charity, while the billionaires ranked later like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates are no better. is how much.

Specifically, Forbes ranks billionaires on a scale of 1 to 5 based on the percentage of their wealth they give to charity. Rank 1 is the billionaires who give less than 1% of their total wealth, 2nd is 1-4.99%, 3rd is 5-9.99%, 4th is 10-19.99% and last 5 is over 20%.

In addition, Elon Musk has long made public his ambition to spend all his fortune to settle on Mars and the fact that he has sold most of his valuable assets to fulfill this desire.

“In fact, I would become a person who owns no assets but shares in the companies I lead. If the work is stressful and requires concentration, I sleep in the factory or office. the room is fine. But since I have children, I need a larger space for them. Renting a house or something like that would be a reasonable solution.”