There is plenty of money around - you only have to look at how many 'personalised' number plates there are.
My car is approaching ten years old*, no telly (so, no satellite dish), once smoked part of a cigarette for theatrical purposes in a film. Lived in MOD housing, or associated private "hirings", as they were called. My father spent considerable amounts of time away on various deployments, including a whole year, just before Aden was abandoned.
You tell kids that today and they won't believe you.
We live in a society where rich people can have a history of serial failure, yet have to be attracted by stupid salary levels, and where poor people must be ground down to give them an incentive to work harder. If you can get over the hump to go from 'us' to 'them', you are basically safe for ever...
* I don't really want the latest car, if somebody hits this one too hard, I would be looking for an identical car...