160 billion / 700 million
If Musk gave all his money away, the starving millions could get about $230 each.
That'd feed them for a few weeks, maybe. It would not solve poverty.
{rough figures, based on [1] [2] - except, in reality, a) he couldn't get all that money liquidated, b) distributing it would likely cost most of the $230}
But you know what does help them? Global, cheap communications via Starlink.
And innovations that come from spaceflight - such as, space blankets, invented by NASA. And smoke alarms, and the jaws of life, and freeze-dried food, and artificial limbs, and hearing aids, and fireproof clothing, and laptop computers, and mobile phone cameras, and oh so much more.
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Bit more complicated than just sharing the money out.
Reasonable healthcare, contraception, clean water, etc
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