Billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he will sell shares of his electric car company Tesla and donate the proceeds, in exchange for the United Nations fulfilling one of his conditions.
Musk said on his Twitter account that he is ready to sell Tesla shares if the United Nations can prove that only a small percentage of his wealth can solve the world hunger crisis.
He added in his tweet that he will demand accountability for how his money is spent to solve the problem of hunger in the world.
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.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2021
Elon Musk’s condition before the United Nations came in response to statements by the director of the United Nations World Food Program, David Beasley, to CNN last week, who claimed that a donation of $ 6 billion from billionaires such as Musk and Jeff Bezos could help 42 million Someone who “will actually die of starvation if we fail to save them.”
David Beasley did not remain silent in front of Elon Musk’s condition, and responded to him via “Twitter”: “I can assure you that we have open source transparency and accountability systems in place, and your team can review us and work with us to be completely confident of that.”
Beasley also explained to Mask that “the United Nations World Food Program never said that $6 billion would solve the problem of hunger in the world,” noting that “this is a one-time donation to save 42 million lives during this unprecedented hunger crisis,” he says.
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
Then, Beasley reiterated his call to billionaires, asking them to take on the task of solving world hunger.
And David Beasley pointed out, in statements to CNN, that “the 400 largest billionaires in America had an increase in net worth of $ 1.8 trillion in the past year, and all we ask is a 36 percent increase in your net worth.”
Elon Musk is currently the richest man in the world, and the first person ever to have a fortune of $300 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Musk, who is currently CEO of Tesla, has a net worth of $311 billion, so the $6 billion demanded by David Beasley will be only 2% of his wealth, and his donation, if approved, will still outperform the second richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos. of at least $100 billion.