Totally understand that point... but 'world hunger' was Elon's words, that initial report was never about solving world hunger, it was about addressing that very immediate threat of 42 million people starving due to the famines hitting their countries.
The problem is that these people will not have access to food because the famines and the solution is to get them good at the cost of $0.43 per day per person. As you said, we have a distribution problem and that report was all about trying to solve that distribution problem. They have the distribution systems in place, but not the funds to make it work at the scale they need.
The scaling up comment was saying that they already have the systems in place to solve the problem... they just need to scale up the amount of food they can provide, that's what the $6B was for.
Did Elon purposely make the issue harder by reframing it? Who knows? All we can say is that he asked for a plan, they gave a plan, and nothing happened.
Anyway, whatever, I don't really care about any of this, I just wanted to provide some context that "Liberals" weren't just making stuff up to lose their minds over.
Yeah this is all very reasonable and Elon Musk is a huge cynical troll so there is that.
He should have never even made such a comment because it was so obvious he'd never fork over the money.
It was always going to be exactly how it turned out.
Honestly, has anyone trolled better than Elon? Sure, other peeps have come up with some hilariously ingenious trolling over the years, but for pure impact Elon has be the world's best troll.