if people care more about the imagined world than the real world to the degree described in the comment i replied to, then there is no need for our real bodies to actually do anything other than exist. We only need imagine what we'd like to identify with, and the system will handle the rest. We could each be the supreme leader of our own world as far as we can observe

A bunch of bodies existing in reality with minimal real-world activity would be a form of peace.

Real world activity would be a disruption to that peace, and also unobservable to the imagined world since all content is mediated. So anytime a persons behavior does not fit into the imagined world system, they could be killed and no one would care or even know. Maybe everybody is just told that person had a heart attack or whatever.

it's akin to the dangers of not having a free press but with all of those dangers hyper-industrialized