His first instinct is to fight it. But he can see by looking around that it goes nowhere. If there was a chance that just ignoring the quota worked, this place would have fallen apart already.

And if Carver is saying it, and saying it like that, then he knows someone as used to survival as they both are didn't fare any better.

"Well, I guess we can't expect things to be any better here than anywhere else. Just different." So, fine. He'll do what he has to do. But that means he'll still break into the warehouse and scout out the arsenal.

"...Are you treated well?"