Aren't the creators of this multiverse trying to embed artificial scarcity into it already?
In any case, what's a giant garden in which the sun isn't warm, the flowers don't smell, and the grass doesn't brush against your skin?
In any case, what's a giant garden in which the sun isn't warm, the flowers don't smell, and the grass doesn't brush against your skin?
With better VR, the sun is warm, the flowers do smell, and the grass does brush against your skin.
Your current experience of "reality" is not as real as you may think it is. Everything you've ever done or experienced has been communicated to your brain through sensory neurons. If we make a VR that can connect up your sensory neurons to the virtual world, your experiences can be just as "real" as "reality" is.
And if VR is where all your friends are, and where your work is, and where your leisure is, who cares about "reality" any more? It's just an alternative plane of existence where resources are finite, you get cold in bad weather, you need to clean when the place gets dirty, you need to wait for things to arrive, etc.
But once there's a company in it that needs to maximize profit, things are going to get sticky. Democracy isn't perfect either and can turn bad.
And what about the potential for technical malfunctions? What about hacking? What about abuse? What about those who can't afford the hardware? What about those who don't want to join?
Building that utopia is going to require rebuilding half (or all) of society first, if we don't we have a near guarantee of getting a dystopia real fast, and even if we manage to avoid that there are too many intrinsic ways for this to turn horrible.
People who realize that Reality is where you can lose Wi-Fi reception, stop receiving nutrient liquid, and otherwise be enslaved and/or killed.
Seriously, your future is a nightmare.
If you want a perfectly clean, warm, automated existence, work on robots and O'Neill colonies, not the Matrix.