Tech bros like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have expressed their fondness for Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels, which depict a post-scarcity society. It seems they love the tech depicted in the books but miss the message that the most important thing powerful people can do is use their power to make the world freer, fairer, and more pleasurable for everyone else.
The tech billionaires are missing the point of their favorite sci-fi series
Iain Banks’s Culture novels take place in a socialist utopia. The broligarchs love them.
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