Ya'll don't hate on each other...
It's a good point that peasants with net negative tax impact (neets, low wages etc) still serve a purpose in directing money velocity thru consumption. It still directs the printed/tax money to the lords. Like being a beekeeper or some shit.
It's also a good point that the depressed and worthless slaves slow down their consumption activity even if required, and discretionary spending becomes less of a band-aid over time as anhedonia takes control. Could be why so many of us take to drugs as it is virtually the only way to generate positive sensations at all, even if the consequences appear devastating. The choice is between hell with 0 good feelings, or a tiny sliver of good feelings surrounded by a more intense hell. Society demonizes these life-destroying drugs that also happen to be the only possible way for many peasants to experience anything positive whatsoever. Society loves drugs like gambling, alcohol, reality tv, recently cannabis that can be mastered to generate sustainable cash flow.
But, recently they've even found ways to monetize xylazine, fent, meth by directing the users to specific areas for purposes like destroying neighborhoods to buy cheap property, bully other people into working harder as an example of ruin etc. Not to mention the war on opioid epidemic which creates all those recovery and addiction clinics, psych services and the like. It's partially why we see more of it because more sustainable cash is being made versus people going into oblivion without serving their lords.
Ultimately too much depression, suicide, mass killings out of literally going crazy, and so on, will hurt the bottom line. Suicide and depression are milked as best as possible with suicide hotlines directing people to expensive medical procedures like forced hospital incarcerations, antidepressants, that sort of shit. Also recently reproduction is slowed in overdeveloped places but don't think they care about us dying, we are still easily replaced because different areas of the planet are different encomiendas, just like we farm different crops in different climates so too are different peasants cultivated.
Note society will still milk money, your life will be used to generate cash for superiors no matter what. Even if you die, there is shit like investigating the body and redistributing any resources, autopsy, phone calls, whatever--economic activity because people are being paid, money velocity is happening. Even terrorism and mass killings that might otherwise dent an economy is milked for hyping us narratives for politics (huge money direction force) like starting wars or demeaning character traits deemed unprofitable, rebuilding, paying people and developers for memorials, commercials on the news channels as they go on and on and on and on about the event (what forces dictate which events to discuss or move on from?) ad nauseam, all that and more.
What's more is there is probably not a single rich or powerful person to direct your anger at to resolve these things or seek justice. All systems have winners and losers, period. These are emergent forces. You were predestined for hell or heaven (even if born in one or the other and switching at some point), and it may or may not be for the amusement of cosmic powers.
