Elon Musk Offers to Sell $6 Billion USD of Tesla Stock to 'Solve World Hunger'
If the UN World Food Program can describe how the funds will be used.
Elon Musk has offered to sell $6 billion USD of Tesla stock to “solve world hunger.”
Last month, David Beasley, the director of the United Nations‘ World Food Program challenged Musk to donate a portion of his wealth to help alleviate the global hunger crisis on Twitter.
“Congratulations to @elonmusk for passing up @JeffBezos as the world’s richest person,” Beasley wrote. “Elon, to celebrate I’m offering you a once in a lifetime opportunity: help us save 42M people from starvation for just $6.6B!! Offer expires SOON.. and lives do too.”
Congratulations to @elonmusk for passing up @JeffBezos as the world’s richest person – worth a whopping $221B! 🥇 Elon, to celebrate I’m offering you a once in a lifetime opportunity: help us save 42M people from starvation for just $6.6B!! Offer expires SOON.. and lives do too.
— David Beasley (@WFPChief) October 19, 2021
42 million people are on famine’s edge this year. An unprecedented global crisis spiked by Covid. Starvation, destabilization of nations & mass migration if we do not respond. @elonmusk, you made $6 billion just yesterday—the exact $ we need to avert catastrophe! Please help!
— David Beasley (@WFPChief) October 19, 2021
Musk on Sunday responded on Twitter, offering to sell $6 billion USD worth of Telsa shares if the UN’s World Food Program can describe exactly how the funds would “solve world hunger.”
“If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it,” Musk wrote. “But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.”
Fact check:
🔹 2% of @elonmusk‘s wealth is $6B
🔹 In 2020 the UN World Food Program (WFP) raised $8.4B. How come it didn’t “solve world hunger”?— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 30, 2021
Beasley then responded and assured the billionaire that they have “the systems in place for transparency and open source accounting,” before telling Musk that he and his team “can review and work with [them] to be totally confident of such.”
I can assure you that we have the systems in place for transparency and open source accounting. Your team can review and work with us to be totally confident of such.
— David Beasley (@WFPChief) October 31, 2021
At the time of writing, Musk has not responded to Baisley’s last inquiry.
Elsewhere, Tesla recently reached a valuation of over $1 trillion USD.
