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Unlike the matrix where the beta version was a utopia that humans rejected, Meta's Matrix will just be present day but somehow even worse.
Gonna be honest I genuinely always thought this was nonsense; like looking at what the USSR had to offer and being like 'nah, unrealistic', and to make it fail they had to kill millions of people in anti-communist wars and waste billions of dollars that could've gone to making people's live much better, all because the wealthiest wanted to be even wealthier.
maybe this is more of a headcanon, but going off of the animatrix short where the dude achieves enlightenment via running and wakes up from the matrix, i always assumed the reason the beta matrix failed was due to everyone being able to ascend from it easily due to the lack of misery distracting them: capitalist realism acts as a much better distraction to prevent people from escaping that dang saṃsāra than letting them be happy in paradise
I always liked the idea that the matrix was actually multi-tiered, and "waking up" from a tier is just like a filtering mechanism that keeps trying different versions on a given person until they reach one where they're fulfilled by it and get engaged again. Like some people get bored with a paradise, so they get the legally-distinct World of Darkness VRMMO instead; some people don't like the kitschy horror so they get some other fantasy instead, and so on all the way up to the capitalist realism tier and the revolution themed "real world" fantasy tier that finally encapsulate all of them.
The overall story of the entire series makes way more sense when looked at as the machines being merciful after their liberation despite the cruelty and genocidal hatred they'd suffered at the hands of humanity, and desperately trying to humanely and safely preserve humanity to save them from the ecocide the human powers had committed by blocking the sun out of spite.
I mean it's not canon, and the official story is the machines were still dumb and bad and John Wick was the messiah who got IRL superman/magneto powers somehow, but still.
this makes the most sense especially with the lines about how the machines discovered "a form of fusion".
the "batteries" whether purely electrical or chained together into wetware that helps run the Matrix, are basically redundant now that fusion was jumpstarted and they are preserved because the machines were basically communists and only wanted to help (according to the animatrix. remember once pushed into the desert to be isolated in machine gaza they basically created post-scarcity causing all the right wing dominated nations to declare genocide)
Yeah granted that throwaway line about the beta matrix comes from the sequel which is....ehhhhhhhhhh. Not anywhere near as good as matrix 1.
The ones who look at Omelas and think "what if we scaled up the child torture?"
Lead engineer: "I'm confused. I thought we were going to do the Matrix construction. But according to the new specs - you want them to live in permanent nightmares?"
Zuck: "Maximum energy and water extraction occurs from pod bodies if they are in perpetual fear."
He learned well from all the child sacrifices he's attended over the years!