LogFAQs > #967317120

If a billionare really wanted to feed the world/hungry, it would take much more then a few billion to do it even for 1 year.

We are almost at 8 billion people on this planet. if you JUST wanted to feed all of them for 1 week, and you could do so for only $10 a person (including costs to ship it/make it/grow or breed it etc) which is insanely low, it would cost about 560 billion dollars.

Even if you said half the people on the planet are well enough off that they would turn their noses up at a free meal......that still would would bankrupt the top 3 people in the world. Two weeks would make all 10 of the richest people in the world broke.

Now, if instead you started creating companies that made food and sold it at cost (including labor etc), that you could do with a few billion and help tons of people. Mark up on most places is so freaking insane, and if you did that, you would force prices down for others as well, dropping the cost of food everywhere pretty much. In the end you would actually help way more people. Top that off by actually paying your employees a decent wage (and it still would probably be half the price food is currently), and you would really make the world a better place.

Amazingly, not one billionare has done anything like that, even though it would be at cost and not actually cost them anything, it just wouldn't make them a huge profit.