Originally posted by The Last Conformist
If you don't care too much about managing your cities optimally, you could let your governors handle happiness. That way, not city will ever go into civil disorder*, but they'll, of course, happily starve as the governor assigns more and more citizens to entertainment duties.
* Actually, I once had a city with the governor in control of happiness go into civil disorder - it alternated, going into disorder one turn, returning to order the next, then into disorder again the third. I've not been able to reproduce it - some rarely encountered bug, I guess.