Elon Musk gleefully presided over the destruction of USAID which is estimated to kill 14,051,750 including 4,537,157 children by 2030. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)

No matter what his companies builds or accomplishes, those numbers are his legacy.

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like_any_other 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Should we say that every other country that doesn't provide aid equivalent to what USAID did, is also killing those 14 million? E.g. China, Japan, India, Brazil, the UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Russia, Canada, Mexico..?

	▲	port11 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Many countries have their variation of the USAID. In fact the UK, France, Canada, etc. have such programs. I'd argue that these are an investment in the future and end up being positive for the countries investing in them, in the form of the world being a better place, putting less pressure on immigration flows, and so on. Per capita, other countries contribute more, so this wasn't such a wasteful use of American resources. And absence of such a program elsewhere doesn't take away from Musk's DOGE wilfully destroying the program. Yes, that's in his legacy, the deaths that will be caused. Examples: https://impactfunding.substack.com/p/beyond-usaid-alternativ...
	▲	bix6 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No because we established a program to protect those people and Elon destroyed it. Thats not to say others shouldn’t contribute but he specifically axed this.