Their only satisfaction is knowing that there are people who are more miserable than they are. They don't have enough to eat. People who are adept at playing the money game will always have enough money. People who don't know that there is a money game will never have enough food. This gives the haves a special little satisfaction.
Happiness is an inside job.
In the 1940's you could travel all over Southern California on the Pacific Electric. It was a light rail system that traveled from Long Beach to Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. This system was destroyed along with all the other rail systems in the country in the 1940's. People were forced into buying automobiles. Automobiles are expensive, dirty, dangerous, inefficient, and unhealthy.