I think it kind of makes sense when you look at the world now

When you keep people busy fighting just to get by, the majority worries more about the next paycheck instead of thinking about how things could get better.

Look at the coal miners - they fight tooth and nail to destroy their health only to enrich someone else. Look at minimum wage service workers, they’ll work three jobs where they’re constantly treated like crap by everyone, but they won’t risk that terrible job to try to unionize

And look at all of us - the world we’ve created sucks. Most of us are unhappy and never come near our potential, but we’re generally more scared of losing whatever we have to even consider a system that would be better for everyone

If we had the time and mental energy, we’d be pushing the boundaries. We’d find our passion, whether it’s science or exploration or spiritual development. If there’s cracks in the simulation, we’d eventually find them and start picking at them like a scab

In the matrix, the majority is too busy in their gentle suffering to push the boundaries. And the few that have what it takes to break out are given another layer, a hopeless fight where both victory and defeat just restart the cycle

Yes, if the simulation was good enough everyone would willingly stay in the sandbox, but self actualized people will always try to imagine something better. They’d want to explore the universe and build worlds within worlds - if the machines let some people out to explore the real world and left the willing in a great game things would be better for both parties, but they’d have to give up control - the humans outside could fix the skies and colonize endless worlds alongside machines, but they could also decide to come back with better technology and win the war once and for all