"The person who dies rich dies disgraced." How Elon Musk has become one of the largest philanthropists of the planet

According to the income declaration sent by Ilon on February 14 to the securities and exchanges commission (SEC), he became one of the largest philanthropists not only of the United States, but of the whole world last year. Musk transferred Tesla to charitable funds for almost $ 6 billion and, by the amount of donations, lost only to Bill Gates and his ex -wife Melinda French Gates. In total, the richest person of the planet in 10 days in November 2021 transferred 5044 thousand shares of the most expensive automaker of the planet by approximately $ 5.7 billion . True, now, due to extremely high volatility in 2022, they cost significantly less, approximately $ 4.61 billion: in November 2021, Tesla shares cost $ 1060, and February 18 - $ 857. The names of organizations that have received a total of five donations are unknown.

As often happens with a mask, it all started with tweet. In October 2021, Musk wrote that if the UN World Food Program (WFP) will be able to explain how $ 6 billion “solve the problem of hunger in the world”, then he will immediately transfer the Tesla campaign for this amount.

WFP Director David Bisli sent a link to the report to the report on how the UN distributes the money. Six billion is enough, the WFP economists claimed to feed more than 40 million people from 43 countries who live on the verge of starvation.

The Bisli statement said that WFP has not yet received anything from the automotive industry. Nevertheless, the director was pleased: “Whether this money will receive WFP, we’ll wait - we will see, but I am very glad that Elon decided to take part in our activities.”

The WFP representative retained the secret and refused to answer the question, handed over to the Musk of shares of its organization or some charitable funds.

Chronicle of Philanthropy, a magazine writing about charity, put a 48-year-old mask in second place after 66-year-old Bill Gates and 57-year-old French Gates, who transferred $ 15 billion in July last July in July last year.

The donations of the mask coincided with the sale of Tesla shares for $ 16.4 billion after a survey among his Twitter subscribers, whom he asked whether he should sell 10% of his car manufacturer's shares. In December, he wrote that he had to pay taxes in 2021 for more than $ 11 billion from promotional options for which the deadline ended.

Ilon Musk also transferred about 22.9 million options to the shares, which he received for work by the CEO of Tesla instead of cash.

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