While the downers may have suicidal tendencies, the reason the city is in such disrepair is because the people cant work while on joy, so the people who are either unable, or unwilling, to take joy, could be utilized as a workforce, learning to maintain the city, fixing that which is broken, be it smaller things like the Pneumatics of the mail-room, or larger things like the bombed out buildings of the garden district
While the downers may have suicidal tendencies, the reason the city is in such disrepair is because the people cant work while on joy, so the people who are either unable, or unwilling, to take joy, could be utilized as a workforce, learning to maintain the city, fixing that which is broken, be it smaller things like the Pneumatics of the mail-room, or larger things like the bombed out buildings of the garden district