The first he pays lip-service to (we haven't seen an evidence for or against outside of his desire to bully people into silence), but doesn't his plan to make the human race multi-planetary involve bringing back indentured servitude?
[1] https://twitter.com/Kristennetten/status/1217992009794740224?
by ya'lls definition of Indent. Serv. any loan at all is equivalent to Ind.Servitude because you have to pay it back.
Second of all, It's not 'his cities'.
The goal is hundreds of thousands of people in those cities and they will form their own government just like they have on earth.
Is transmitting qualia too far fetched? Maybe, but how about lightly buzzing the brains pleasure centers when employee is at work to improve esprit de corps?