Elon likes dystopian futuristic sci-fi story settings and wants real life to be like those movies and video games, whatever he's doing is an attempt to move in that direction, he's an autist with an edgy fantasy world in his head and just so happens to have a lot of money, it's not so different from the low income autist who became obsessed with dungeons and dragons and wishes he could live in a high fantasy setting and dresses up as a fat wizard elf, this is just how the autist brain works, awkward but harmless until one of them gets billions of dollars