Why not? I think a lot of people with traits like Musk would make us completely subservient without any freedom if he had the technology and opportunity to do so.
The article is talking about actual, literal, species-level extinction. Like, no humans left. That's the sort of "malice towards the species" meant here.
> a lot of people with traits like Musk would make us completely subservient without any freedom
That would be the "dystopia" the person you replied to mentioned.
