system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
"Happiness is nothing but a fiction invented by man as a tool for self-deception. The same discomfort with reality that led to the invention of gods and superstitions, is what led to the invention of such a preposterous notion as happiness." Agree? Disagree? Thoughts?
gpt
The great move of capitalism was to convince it's followers of it's own prowess. In Feudalism, the working poor were convinced that all of their suffering would be rewarded with an infinite paradise in heaven. Starting after the industrial revolution, and continuing up until today, workers have been told that the suffering they endure in their day-to-day labors will be rewarded with the early pleasured offered by capitalism. 

In-the-pool-BBQ's, movies, TV, dining out, drinking, smoking, etc. are the tools by which one rewards themselves for a hard day's work, even if they don't realize that they are working during their leisure time. One has to, in many cases, spend money to be happy. They have to keep the blood of the economic body pumping by spending the money they earned during the work day. They are consuming narratives produced by and for the existing economic order. Their happiness is based on what is made available to them (even if it's the vodka they drink in the dark with good friends).

It sounds conspiratorial, but to think that all that one needs is sufficient relief after a shitty day at work ignores the central concern that work need not be so shitty for so many.