UN’s hypocritical attack on Elon Musk
As the recent fuming over the new private ‘space wars’ between billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others, progressives have all chimed in, attacking the billionaires for their wealth and highlighting disparities between the rich and the majority.
Now, undoubtedly, when it comes to subsidies for anybody, including billionaires, are completely unwarranted. But if there’s anything to consider about the progressives, that is they are far more hypocritical and oftentimes much more bloody than the so-called ‘robber barons’ they smeared.
And in times where governments inflicted a massive pandemic, induced economies with massive restrictions via lockdown, printing money and increasing inflation to new heights, it should be them who be held responsible and not to throw fits of rage and typical scapegoats such as blaming billionaires and the upper class for not paying their fair share, let alone if one were to touch on issues such as subsidies, progressives are about as credible as the New York Times when it covered pre-World War II Soviet Union.
When it comes to the imminent hunger and poverty in Third World countries, it is indeed a massive suffering. Nobody can deny how bad the situation is for those people, but if there’s anybody who deserves more criticism than the supposed ‘robber barons’, it’s the global bureaucrats. The United Nations, headed by a socialist, came out to bash Elon Musk, stating that if he sold 6 billion worth of Tesla’s stock, then world hunger could be solved.
Oh the delicious irony.
The same global bureaucrats who collect far more than the 6 billion have annual revenue of 57 billion. Annually, the UN spends about 5.7 billion in fighting poverty. But this is also considering the fact that the UN spends a large sum of that money to other efforts that isn’t related to poverty as well as the beneficiaries of anti-poverty programs weren’t poor people. Of course, don’t forget about the sex-for-food scandals plaguing the UN and other closely tied NGOs. Additionally, between 2004 and 2011, the UN spends about 8.5 billion annually to fight poverty. 70 years with about half a trillion dollar spent, not much progress has been made. If anything, not just that UN representative deserves to be fired, but dismiss the entirety of the UN for its performance already.
While Africans are starving thanks to the bureaucrats in their country, the UN only pursues to tell everyone to think in the short term, instead of looking at the ghastly reality concerning Africa’s excessive regulation and now, OCED telling Africa to kill more of its small remaining fragments of economic freedom. Like public school, just defund all of the bureaucrats already, from Washington to Beijing, Brussels to Moscow.