No it was nothing to do with wealth ( taxes here were in the 90% at that point and they were broke) but it was to do with the expectations of the time.
Had anyone, before the wars, thought what they wanted went above all else? Well may be but duty and right and convention etc ruled - 'we' did not have the lux of even contemplating the possibility that our wants were a priority --- anyone who went after them before were outcastes or really lucky.
I don'r know but I expect that I am not alone, in here, on having seen three generations back and in seeing three generations forward -
What worries me most about the generations which have followed me is that they do not ask why any more..... that they are not curious.
ps I was at that concert --- if you hear 'turn up the volume Mike!' it was me ---------