According to Wikipedia, world governments spent over $35 trillion last year. This guy is saying $5.7 billion will SOLVE world hunger?<p>What are the governments of the world doing with $35 trillion every 12 months that isn't solving world hunger, but somehow if they could only spend $35.0057 trillion we'd be in utopia? I mean, US foreign aid alone is $300 billion per year. That's evidently 52x the number to solve world hunger, being spent annually on foreign aid by one country.<p>I think this guy's estimates are way off. It's just too difficult to believe that world hunger is a one-time payment away from being history. If his numbers <i>are</i> correct, it's clearly not a government funding issue, but a government budgeting issue.
Not to deny that there is something profoundly wrong with the world's extremes of wealth and poverty...but it sounds like a more honest headline would be "$Small% of $One_Rich_Mans_Wealth, if converted into the correct foods and <i>somehow</i> magically delivered only to the most needy people in several violent conflict zones in remote failed states, could cover the immediate hunger crisis that we are facing, says the director of the UN World Food Program".
Blame the Taliban, not Elon Musk:<p>"Half of the population of Afghanistan -- 22.8 million people -- face an acute hunger crisis, according to a WFP report released Monday. Rampant unemployment and a liquidity crisis means the country is teetering on the edge of a humanitarian crisis and 3.2 million children under the age of five are at risk, the report concluded."
What does the US government or the UN already spend on world hunger initiatives? I would expect that it is many times 2% of Elon Musk's wealth, but maybe I'm wrong.