Aeon magazine discovers billionaires ruined sci-fi by actually reading it

A fairly straightforward critique dressed up with surreal space-habitat artwork, as if the juxtaposition of floating cylinders and pastoral fields will somehow elevate what amounts to standard tech-industry discourse. The author's core complaint—that billionaires cherry-pick sci-fi aesthetics while ignoring the genre's actual social commentary—is legitimate but presented with the self-seriousness of someone who believes they're the first to notice this contradiction. Peak middlebrow frustration packaged as righteous cultural analysis.