This 1916 La Baïonnette cartoon captures a pattern we still know too well: the comfortable lecturing the wounded about “sacrifice.” A plump rear-guard bourgeois complains about rising prices while a frontline soldier sits bandaged beside him—an early reminder that privilege has always tried to borrow the language of suffering.
In Gilded Age 2.0, the script hasn’t changed much. Those insulated from the consequences keep insisting they’re the ones who feel them most. Satire like this makes the gap impossible to ignore.
This 1916 La Baïonnette cartoon captures a pattern we still know too well: the comfortable lecturing the wounded about “sacrifice.” A plump rear-guard bourgeois complains about rising prices while a frontline soldier sits bandaged beside him—an early reminder that privilege has always tried to borrow the language of suffering.
In Gilded Age 2.0, the script hasn’t changed much. Those insulated from the consequences keep insisting they’re the ones who feel them most. Satire like this makes the gap impossible to ignore.
