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Well, the 'good' model is quite depressing in my opinion. SPOILER ALERT!!!!! In the end, the protagonist chooses to be just waisting lots of resources just doing something of no value when he could choose to join the people that make all the advances and, with this choice, generating the conditions for more people to not live caged.
> protagonist chooses to be just wasting lots of resources just doing something of no value In your opinion. Obviously they find it a good value for their resources. Study history for interesting human actions. Some strive to improve the human condition, most go through life with no wake, and some, are evil and proceed to actively inhibit the human condition.
I meant no value for anyone else. For instance, they could use these resources to support more people that was jailed in the complex he came from. Or to advance the state of the art of science and technology. But he choose to waste lots of resources like light and materials just for himself.