system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Matrix] Why does the matrix even exist? If the goal is to harvest energy from humans, why bother immersing them into a realistic world instead of just making them braindead or something?
gpt
This is addressed, very briefly, in *Resurrections*. **Spoilers below:**

The Analyst indicates that his version of the Matrix is the most productive ever, not because of the population size, but because of the existential angst he has managed to cause.

The reason Neo and Trinity are important is because having them close together but never united, living lives of quiet desperation, is altering the Matrix itself at a fundamental level. Their agitation is spreading to everyone else, and that agitations is making them better batteries.

A braindead human, for whatever reason, just isn't as productive as a miserable human.