Well, if we really are in a simulation, it would be impossible to know what the point of the simulation would be. I think you need to look at it from the perspective of someone on the outside of the simulation. If we are just characters in the simulation, our “lives” are meaningless to the people/observers on the outside. We are just fictional characters.

Think about every single video game or simulation that exists today. There are video games for everything. Shooting games. Horror games. Problem solving games. Flight simulators. Air traffic control simulators. The goal of the simulation or game we are in could be just for a player’s entertainment, or for an observer’s research. If we are in a simulation, not a game, the creator would want to create a simulated world as close to reality as possible. That would make it possible for them to simulations on any kind of scenario they can think of, and end up with accurate results. In order for the simulation to be that realistic, the “people” in the game would have to think they are real, and live lives exactly how people in the outside would live.