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the profits in 1 year from silicon valley can solve world hunger by buying every single man woman child 3 meals a day, every day.

_Algernon_ 4y ago
source?
stuartd 4y ago
Still doesn’t stop the world burning, though
throwaway71271 4y ago
700 million people live in poverty 3 meals per day, 5$ per meal for 365 days is 3,832,500,000,000$
- stuartd 4y ago
  If meals cost 5$ all over the planet then there would be mass starvation
  - adrian_b 4y ago
    Yes, indeed. Even in the European Union, it is possible to pay around $5 for all the meals of a day, including not only adequate quantities of vegetables and fruits, but also a moderate amount of chicken meat. However, for that, you must be cost-conscious, because from the same shops you could buy an equivalent quantity of food, but at a price even 10 times greater, when you choose to buy processed foods, even those as cheap as bread, instead of buying only raw ingredients.
- the-smug-one 4y ago
  Five bucks? 1kg of beans in Sweden is like 3 bucks.
- koverda 4y ago
  beans, $700 / metric ton [1] rice, $500 / metric ton [2] a meal of 65g dry rice and 55g dry beans per person. 700m * 3 = 2.1b meals per day 115,500 tons beans = $80.9m 136,500 tons rice = $68.3m Total $149.1m/day I'm sure at these quantities you can get much better prices of rice and beans, even just browsing on alibaba. I'd guess we can probably get that down under $100m from alibaba. Probably even lower at the quantities we're talking about. 1 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/red-bean-wholesales-supplier-crop-long_62039743604.html?spm=a2700.7724857.0.0.675963e1lxG5Wh https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/red-bean-wholesales-s... 2 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Jasmine-Rice-Long-Grain-Fragrant-Rice_60640299922.html?spm=a2700.7724857.0.0.569f51b9BpLJv0 https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Jasmine-Rice-Long-Gra...
  - NavinF 4y ago
    You didn’t include shipping. UPS isn’t gonna deliver canned food to each tent in places like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War#Humanitarian_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War#Humanitarian_crisis
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_Algernon_ 4y ago

source?

stuartd 4y ago

Still doesn’t stop the world burning, though

throwaway71271 4y ago

700 million people live in poverty 3 meals per day, 5$ per meal for 365 days is 3,832,500,000,000$

stuartd 4y ago
If meals cost 5$ all over the planet then there would be mass starvation
- adrian_b 4y ago
  Yes, indeed. Even in the European Union, it is possible to pay around $5 for all the meals of a day, including not only adequate quantities of vegetables and fruits, but also a moderate amount of chicken meat. However, for that, you must be cost-conscious, because from the same shops you could buy an equivalent quantity of food, but at a price even 10 times greater, when you choose to buy processed foods, even those as cheap as bread, instead of buying only raw ingredients.
the-smug-one 4y ago
Five bucks? 1kg of beans in Sweden is like 3 bucks.
koverda 4y ago
beans, $700 / metric ton [1] rice, $500 / metric ton [2] a meal of 65g dry rice and 55g dry beans per person. 700m * 3 = 2.1b meals per day 115,500 tons beans = $80.9m 136,500 tons rice = $68.3m Total $149.1m/day I'm sure at these quantities you can get much better prices of rice and beans, even just browsing on alibaba. I'd guess we can probably get that down under $100m from alibaba. Probably even lower at the quantities we're talking about. 1 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/red-bean-wholesales-supplier-crop-long_62039743604.html?spm=a2700.7724857.0.0.675963e1lxG5Wh https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/red-bean-wholesales-s... 2 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Jasmine-Rice-Long-Grain-Fragrant-Rice_60640299922.html?spm=a2700.7724857.0.0.569f51b9BpLJv0 https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Jasmine-Rice-Long-Gra...
- NavinF 4y ago
  You didn’t include shipping. UPS isn’t gonna deliver canned food to each tent in places like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War#Humanitarian_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War#Humanitarian_crisis
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