His feedback got here after UN World Food Programme (WFP) director David Beasley challenged the ultra-wealthy — and specifically the world's two richest males Jeff Bezos and Musk — to "step up now, on a one-time basis" to assist solve world hunger in an interview with CNN final week.
"$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don't reach them. It's not complicated," Beasley stated on CNN's Connect the World program with Becky Anderson. That sum would equate to roughly 2% of Musk's internet wealth.
Posting on Twitter on Sunday, the Tesla chief govt stated: "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.""But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent," he added.
Beasley replied to Musk's put up on Twitter, saying he may guarantee the billionaire that the WFP had the methods in place for transparency and open supply accounting.
"Your team can review and work with us to be totally confident of such,"
he stated.
"$6 billion will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate crises," he added.
Addressing the billionaires immediately within the CNN interview, he stated: "What if it was your daughter starving to death? What if it was your family starving to death? Just, wake up, smell the coffee and help."As of Monday, Musk had a internet price of $311 billion, in accordance to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, making him the richest man within the world.The internet price of US billionaires has nearly doubled because the pandemic started, standing at $5.04 trillion in October, in accordance to progressive teams Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness.
Last week, Tesla grew to become the sixth firm in US historical past to be price $1 trillion and the second quickest to obtain that milestone after Facebook (FB).
— Additional reporting by Eoin McSweeney and Adam Pourahmadi.
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