https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqnpd/elon-musk-twitter-socialist-anti-media-tesla > What planet does Elon Musk live on? > Over the past month, the “real-life Iron Man” has, tweet-by-tweet, constructed a picture of reality that increasingly looks less like the world most of us interact with every day. He’s actually a socialist, he claimed on Twitter recently, although he believes corporations should provide for most of society’s needs and doesn’t think his Tesla factory should unionize. Later that same day, Musk claimed to be a “utopian anarchist” a la the futuristic civilization depicted in science fiction writer Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. This view seems to ignore the fact that in a 1994 essay titled “A Few Notes on the Culture,” Banks himself laid out a “personal conviction” that “a planned economy can be more productive—and more morally desirable—than one left to market forces.” This socialist outlook doesn’t jibe with the worldview Musk has espoused in his recent tweets.