I was thinking about human development and how as we get further into a socialist society we may find it hard to get children to fully grasp what past systems were like.
There are people who theorize we are a simulation and they give various ideas for why this might be. One most of them wouldnt consider as they are libs is we could just be in a full immersion learning environment. Imagine we are all students in some future school who have been sent into a simulated past to live the lives our ancestored lived and see first hand the horrors of capitalism. Start taking notes youre probably gonna have to write a paper on all this shit once you wake up.
I can think of many good reasons for why a futuristic capitalism would simulate the current Earth. Simulating the Earth might not be profitable on current hardware; however, in the future, it could be trivial.
Simulate how capitalism could succeed over communism.
Even in our current day, we are running out of data to feed to AI to keep improving them; that is to say, to generate infinite new data for training AI or to sell among capitalists.
Capitalists could be simulating the Earth specifically as a form of cryptocurrency, wherein, to keep profits high and the workers of the real Earth enslaved, they must sell digital products like NFTs to NPCs.
They could also, as said above, be a form of torture where they implant a prisoner into the life of one of the most downtrodden.
It could also simply be a simulation to figure out wealth extraction—how best to exploit the population.