Absolutely. Happiness or any other emotion is just some chemicals in our brain. We can release those anytime we want (certainly it will take some practice)...

Absolutely. Happiness or any other emotion is just some chemicals in our brain. We can release those anytime we want (certainly it will take some practice)... But America has built the culture of production and consumption. Most producers know that they're fooling people to buy their products, but anyway they're free to do it. Certainly it is possible to maximize economic wealth through the production and consumption culture, but happiness will always remain hard to come by.