If I were an evil ruler who wanted to make a society depressed, I would:
1/ Disincentivise family formation & maintenance
2/ Make the food supply toxic
3/ Encourage sedentarism
4/ Discourage in person interaction
5/ Make the physical environment ugly
6/ Confuse people about their identity
7/ Bombard the population with negative news 24/7
8/ Make people feel guilty for things they didn't do
9/ Stoke distrust between men & women
10/ Stoke distrust between races & ethnicities
11/ Destroy trust in institutions
12/ Promote 'existential threat' doomsday narratives
13/ Make people afraid to speak their mind
14/ Discourage and denigrate belief in God
15/ Wait..
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If I were really cruel, I would also encourage spending more than you have, buying what you don't need, and engaging in every vice available... Which is easier when the concept of 'sin' no longer exists in the collective mentality.
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