Businessman and billionaire Elon Musk yesterday (Sunday) responded critically to the UN call on billionaires around the world to donate to UN aid organizations to save people around the world from starvation.
Musk did not object to the request itself but noted that he did not understand where the many donations to date to UN-linked international aid organizations had gone, and hinted that he did not trust that all the money was going to charity and not to other things.
Musk's response was in response to a call by David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Program, who wrote a long-quoted post on CNN in which he said that "the billionaires in the world, including Alon Musk and Jeff Bezos, should now donate money from the huge capital they have and urgently needed contribution of 6 billion dollars to save 42 million people worldwide hunger immediately. "
Musk responded indirectly to things, when responded to the publication of an artificial intelligence expert who wrote the UN's food organization in 2020 raised a total of $ 8.4 billion and that WFP missing Still $ 5.3 billion. In this regard, Musk expressed clear astonishment and wrote: "Why was the amount raised not enough?".
Elon Musk later wrote that he was certainly willing to sell shares and donate a lot of money to feed the hungry all over the world, but said that he would only do so if the UN transparently described the chain of money transfer to the hungry.
"I call on the UN to describe in this Twitter thread exactly how $ 6 billion will solve world hunger, if that happens I will sell Tesla shares right now and get the money," Musk said.