“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
I&#x27;m going to go out on a limb and guess the prominence of depression is <i>largely</i> caused by a broken interface with the world at large. The traps created by modern society wherein you struggle for other people&#x27;s benefit are better designed than ever before. What our social machine procedurally treats as progress is advances in subjugation. Depression may often be an artifact of &quot;efficiency&quot; with respect to extracting value from the population at large. We might need to dial back the exploitation of the currently-exploitable class to have a sustainable society, assuming pills don&#x27;t work. In different terms, maybe we have too many rich people (exploiters) in a situation where it&#x27;s clearly very foolish to keep growing in number (and productivity) to support them. Maybe we just need to rebalance our economy to make it work better for those currently exploited and endemically depressed people.