Elon Musk Loves to Solve Other People’s Problems … Not His Own, by Jason Scott Jones

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream, January 8, 2025

Jason Jones is a senior contributor to The Stream. He is a film producer, activist, and human rights worker. He is also the author of three books, the latest of which is The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset.

Imagine a devoted Christian wife and mother who was so preoccupied with distant philanthropic projects that she did nothing for the poor who were her neighbors, and in fact neglected her own family — driving her husband and children into misery and despair. Actually, you don’t have to imagine such a character, since Charles Dickens did that for us in the form of Mrs. Jellyby in Bleak House. As Jim Forest wrote at Touchstone, Jellyby

resolutely devotes every waking hour to the “Borrioboola-Gha venture” [which] involves the settlement of impoverished Britons among African natives with the goal of supporting themselves through coffee growing.

Mrs. Jellyby is convinced that no other undertaking in life is so worthwhile, or would solve so many problems at a stroke. … [She] is so wedded to her work that she has no time for her several children, with the exception of Caddy, a daughter she has conscripted as her secretary. Ink-spattered Caddy puts in nearly as many hours as her mother in the daily task of answering letters and sending out literature about Borrioboola-Gha. …

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