Much ado about how FElon could singlehandedly wipe out world hunger and many other societal issues if he weren't an idiot notc cnt. This is nice and a valid sentiment as we all hate his stupid guts but disregards the structural factors capitalism created ensure hunger and disparity as its perpetual energy source.
Global hunger is not a natural phenomenon and it is not an accident of geography. It is structurally engineered and maintained by the same economic order that prices cobalt on the London Metal Exchange. Every time a billionaire's net worth crosses a threshold and the calculator discourse starts, it reinstates the premise that individual charity could fix a system designed to extract. It cannot. The system is working exactly as intended.
A Congolese child is covered in toxic dust, beaten, forced into artisanal mining so that the global tech industry has cheap, uninterrupted access to the critical minerals it needs for microchips, EV batteries, and smartphones. That supply chain runs from the DRC to Chinese processors to the devices in every pocket in the room. The beneficiary of the extraction is not abstract. It is us.
Northern Nigeria built towering groundnut pyramids, dominated global cotton markets, exported premium hides, and sustained trans-Saharan trade routes for generations before colonization. That productive capacity did not disappear — it was systematically dismantled.
Structural adjustment programs imposed by the IMF and World Bank in the 1980s and 90s forced the removal of agricultural subsidies and flooded markets with subsidized European and American grain exports, making local food production economically unviable.
More than 10 million people face starvation in Sudan while conflict minerals — gold, uranium, lithium, rare earths — flow out through proxy factions funded by competing external powers. The aid figures and the extraction figures are rarely placed in the same sentence. They should be.
In Haiti in 2010, UN peacekeepers introduced cholera to the country's main waterways through untreated sewage, directly killing more than 10,000 people. In Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction documented billions in humanitarian aid instead given to corrupt regional warlords and contractor networks. These are not anomalies. They are the system producing its intended outputs: administrative overhead, expatriate salaries, dependency, and the sustained conditions that justify the next funding cycle.
The solution to engineered dispossession is not a donation to a charity operating under capitalism. Find a grassroots anti-imperialist movement. Fund it directly. Support the political conditions for communities to reclaim their farmlands, their resource wealth, and their right to govern themselves without creditors at the door. It's socialism or barbarism and that includes donations to help make barbarism a little less bad.