Tesla founder Elon Musk is worth nearly $300 billion, making him one of the world’s richest people. And Sunday he found himself called out by David Beasley, director of the United Nations’ World Food Program, who told CNN that now is the time for billionaires to “step up” to solve world hunger.
Beasley also called out Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in the article, saying, “Six billion dollars to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don’t reach them. It’s not complicated.”
But Musk retorted that the problem is more complicated than Beasley is making it out to be.
Musk, in fact, inquired as to why world hunger wasn’t already eradicated after the WFP raised $8.4 billion last year, responding to a post by an AI researcher quoting those numbers.
The WFP website does state that the program is still $5.3 billion short of its target goal.
Musk then made a bold promise via a tweet: He would sell off $6 billion of Tesla stock and put that money towards ending world hunger if the WFP could explain exactly where the money would go and why it would be effective.
Beasley responded via Twitter publicly asking for a meeting with Musk, putting the ball back in the billionaire's court.
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