Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoThey 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 7 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 7 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.
sundray@lemmus.org 7 months ago
Based on the prices I looked up you could feed everyone on Earth 1,800 kcal of potatoes for one day for around 40 billion USD. So… lets do it! Global spud day! Don’t ask me where to get a pot that big for boiling all them taters though.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
You do make a relavant point. Prices have doubled in the last couple of years and I think the statistic is from the early 2010s.