Because the underlying meta-system is the one that produces the people. Complete with their understanding of what "good" is. The important thing is for that en

Because the underlying meta-system is the one that produces the people. Complete with their understanding of what "good" is. The important thing is for that energy to be expended in the pursuit of certain outcomes; the goals themselves are already self-contradictory. The meta-system uses that to reproduce itself. Our lives are secondary to that goal.