Work and Wealth

Vogons are known for three things: poetry, bureaucracy, and middle management. The last two can be harmful for a business and its workers to succeed in real life, but it works for the movie's Vogons. There is a running joke of the Vogons needing an extremely specific form to do anything at all (except their lunch break, which interrupts everything). According to a behind-the-scenes video, the Vogons are based off of politicians[1]. This could represent the sometimes ignorant hand politicians have in technology and technological policy.

In contrast to the Vogons, the workers of Magrathea are free to be creative and make whatever bits of the new planets they want. This approach to management, as related to innovation and computing technology, works much better in real life, and is reflected in the Magrathean's success in building planets with great efficiency, while the Vogons fail to capture the hero on multiple occasions.