Billionaire Elon Musk's latest innovation is to troll philanthropy

"He doesn't seem to care much about using his philanthropy to curry public favour," Benjamin Soskis said

The richest people on earth typically devote a share of their vast resources to charity. That is the bargain and the expectation, anyway.

Jeff Bezos, until recently the world’s richest human, has been applying himself dutifully if a bit cautiously to the task.

The latest richest human, Elon Musk, has taken a rather different tack. There was the public spat with the director of the World Food Programme on Twitter, for instance, announcing, “If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.”

There was