Maybe it’s to provide food security just for those who don’t already have it
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BillSchofield@lemmy.world 6 months agoI’m having trouble figuring out the math for this. My assumptions lead me to divide $30b by 8b people, which is about $4/person. I’m not confident that people can eat on $4 for a year.
What am I getting wrong?
nnjethro@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
They clearly stated
food and freight to feed every human on Earth for a year
It’s a shit load of money, but let’s be honest you need way more than that to feed everyone. If Musk decided to donate all of his fortune, then maybe that’d be true.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Musks fortune is only 340b at its peak, and the moment he tried to access 44b of it for Twitter it collapsed the price.
Even 340b is still only $41 a year for everyone.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Yea even assuming the 340b a 25 pound bag of rice was about 22 bucks when I googled it and about the same for cheap beans. Maybe between the two a person could survive a long time but it wouldn’t be pleasant. I’m sure if you buy in those bulks you could get it for way cheaper too but still, math doesn’t add up.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
That the costs scale down the more massive the production. If you’re in the industrialized world, the money you pay for food is almost all profit. Not the cost of agriculture, not the cost of harvesting and packaging, not freight time, maintenance and fuel, not logistics and accounting. Profit.
Most of our money spent is bribes goes in the pocket of each of the capitalists along the way taking their bit of rent.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I just did the math myself before seeing your comment and you’re right that math is fucked lmao.