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It's because it's the time period when the capitalists found the sweet spot of giving people a good enough life to not revolt, but not good enough to let them get ahead.
That's not what they said. They made the Matrix the 1990's, the pinnacle of human civilization.
In hindsight, it's surprising that Smith didn't namedrop "the end of history."
Morpheus refers to the scorched Earth using a line from Baudrillard. And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect. I suppose they'd eventually recover by saying "It's more like Inception," because nobody saw Existenz.