[BowBun]

I think your argument is as valid as the one you're responding to.

>The system has as much interest in curing your depression as it does curing obesity.

Ironically enough, the system hasn't cured obesity (if you believe obesity is primarily caused by a poor environment) and seems to instead to be headed towards managing symptoms by hacking our hormones and brains with semaglutides, etc. But at least you can work.

If you use a similar train of thought applied to depression - we're now in a situation where something like 50 million Americans are on antidepressants or antianxiety medication. 1 in 6. This is also treating symptoms and putting people into a state of being able-bodied without being so well as to remove their dependency on the drug. But at least you can work.

So I think the original idea fits with the concerns you outline. Mass producing a few drugs to keep a majority of the population able-bodied might not be that much money in the big picture.

I'm not a firm believer in this theory, but I can totally believe an overly complex system with poor incentives and no absolute oversight can lead to these outcomes.