I didn't interpret as "because they no longer care about their surroundings."
To me it seemed to be a depiction of the most likely dystopian future that 99.9% of the populace in the so-called "developed" world face — so little opportunity and such wealth disparity that practically everyone (regardless of race) lives in relative squalor (at the "trailer trash" level).
That this was the their "middle class" experience.
In that framing it's not that they ignore the real world in favor of the virtual reality. It's that they resort to the virtual reality as the only recourse for what meager opportunities it offers.
They need to log in to be able to do anything.
(Which, of course, raises questions unanswered by the film — and out of scope for its storyline. I can imagine that most employment opportunities are "online" and many manual labor jobs amount to a logged in worker remotely controlling various robots via the VR interfaces. The human becomes a set of relative cheap/efficient eyes and ears for contributing to a relatively better safety record for the robots; low pay but also extremely low requirements for employment).
Answer Guy / JimD
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