CONVENIENCE (and sugar/salt addiction) and the inability of the commoners to GROW THEIR OWN FOOD.
This is very true.
'Please sir, can I have the brain/computer interface and the sensory deprivation tank now?
I'd like to be a battery.'
When their life comes out of the flashylight box preprogrammed for them, why wouldn't they?
It would beat having a job, to most of them.
Hell, I'm tempted.
Good point.
I think they're just using us to train their hyperintelligent AI for the moment, and then they'll just abandon about 6 billion of us to starvation.
That is what the gamers are doing, teaching the ai how to think like a human.
Or, maybe they are controlling drones somewhere else.