People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.
I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.