You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.