The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GALAXY is one of the books that Musk likes.
He said he would name the first spaceship from the company after a ship in the novel. The Boring Company hats hit 42,000 sales and he dropped references to the story. He describes Adams as his favorite philosopher and is definitely a big fan.
One historian recently accused the billionaire of missing the point of the stories, and offered a critique of billionaires using sci-fi novels as a user's manual.
A Harvard historian and writer for The New Yorker appeared on a recent episode of The Next Big Idea where she threw shade at Musk. She believes that the novels are an indictment of systems of profound economic inequality, while the CEO's wealth, lifestyle and business models are nothing but.
She says that Adams wrote a novel with an anti-apartheid sticker on his typewriter, and suggested he would take issue with Musk's treatment of his works. Lepore might be referring to rumors that the billionaire and his family enriched themselves off of the exploitation of victims of apartheid South Africa.
Douglas Adams is saying that we shouldn't send wealthy people to other planets to build colonies because that is wrong and that he is writing a satire that shows the many ways in which that is wrong.
Musk wasn't the only one with criticisms. The historian said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has drawn inspiration for his much ballyhooed metaverse from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, was a bad person.
Why do these guys keep reading science fiction, which is often a social criticism, and why are they reading it as a user's manual?
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