Of course some unhappy with their lives prefer to live in an alternate reality. I don&#x27;t mean to suggest everyone would prefer &quot;real life&quot; but that the majority of people don&#x27;t simply chose to maximize happiness at the expense of other things.<p>One could argue that the value you get from your &quot;real life&quot; relationships with people are nothing more than a simple chemical reaction taking place in your brain that could also be simulated.