• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger?

    The U.N. World Food Programme feeds over 100 million people facing severe hunger in more than 120 countries and territories every year. In 2021, WFP did this with a budget of $9.6 billion dollars, which was still $5.2 billion dollars short of their total funding requirements. Clearly, ending world hunger will require more money.

    Back in July of 2021, former U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley mentioned it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

    Edit: I should add, that they should still do it. Split it between the billionaires. Fuck, Elon is worth a trillion dollars

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        They don’t have any money, except when they do. They have all kinds of money for stock buybacks and bribes to government officials but when it comes to paying taxes suddenly there’s no liquidity.

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      That’s still only $360b. We could do that with only a portion of the wealth of ONE MAN.