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Because they are egotistical enough to see something dystopian and think "I'm going to make that work!"

• heroprotagonist 2y ago
  Most dystopias have some very small percentage of the population for which it's a utopia. I'm sure some of the people designing and building such dystopias like to imagine they'll belong to that small utopian part of it and disregard any impact to anyone else.
• bamboozled 2y ago
  Personally, I think it's more of a lack of imagination to blame. The eighties kids are hung up on what they saw in the movies growing up and are trying to building most of it without any fresh ideas or foresight.
• MathMonkeyMan 2y ago
  To be fair, he might have just liked the voice. This scandal aside, I don't think there's any doubt that the guy just wants all the money.
• rsynnott 2y ago
  Well, not so much that, but because they are so detached from reality that they see something dystopian and think “this is good, actually”. Probably many people do this to some extent, and it can be fairly harmless (for instance, Isaac Asimov apparently did not realise that people found the world-spanning arcologies found in Foundation (Trantor) and his detective novels (Earth) crushingly dystopian until after the fact). But when it crosses over with money and influence, it can be concerning.