Salman Rushdie has said he doesn’t believe that Elon Musk is a defender of free speech, adding that he would “love for him to be the first man on Mars”.
“If they go ahead [and push people out], they’ll find that the price of food won’t go down, but rather, it’ll go up, because there will be no one to harvest the crops.
The 77-year-old author is currently testifying in the trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of attacking him during a public lecture on free speech at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state in August 2022.
The Satanic Verses author then shared that he had met Musk a decade ago, where the tech mogul shared his plans to “get to Mars”.
We live in an era of migration, a time in history when many people move around the planet for economic or political reasons,” he said.
