> Just imagine reading Siddhartha or The Glass Bead Game at a steel mill—but that’s Philip Glass for you.

I don't know what this means. I worked a lot of "blue collar jobs" in my time, and I'd often see people reading "serious books" on break. It's not uncommon. I read a lot of Hemingway because of recommendations I got from a dude I used to work with cleaning concrete truck drums with jackhammers.