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For me, I don't take issue with living in the matrix or even being forced to.
It's that the computers could have made it a utopia where everyone has everything they need or want and just live life or hell even giving interfaces so that people could just build whatever out of thin air
But the computers just... replicated the real world 90's...and all the suffering and pain and capitalism along with it....
I think the old guy in the second movie said that they did make it a utopia but humans couldn’t deal with living in a perfect wonderland. They fixed it by making it kinda a boring day to day life.
They did try that