Historian Carl Raymond joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the Gilded Age. If John D. Rockefeller lived today, who would be the richest person: him or Elon Musk? When did the Gilded Age end? How long would it take for a Gilded Age woman to get ready? Answers to these questions and many more await on Gilded Age Support.
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00:00 - Gilded Age Support
00:14 - New money, old habits, better ballroom
01:02 - Belles, bustles, and bad intentions
02:01 - Gilded Age: Elden Ring DLC
02:46 - BBL dresses
03:44 - An appetite of monopolistic proportions
05:45 - The Rockefellers walked so modern tech CEOs could run
06:48 - The 1% of the 1%
08:36 - Musk vs. Rockefeller
09:18 - The ruthless robber barons
12:21 - Ballroom? Grand. Bathroom? Exclusive.
13:28 - High titles, low liquidity
14:47 - The party's over, Vanderbilt
15:39 - Brb, fastening the 45 tiny buttons on my gown
17:07 - Gilded Age Manhattan vs. today
18:18 - "The only 400 people who matter"
19:52 - Table for 1 at the Oil-ive Garden
20:46 - Newport behavior
21:43 - Yellow journalism: the original fake news
22:43 - Murder! Murder! Read all about it
23:37 - Having everything is boring
24:53 - The Black 400
26:02 - Opera? Never heard of them, darling
26:44 - Catch me at the Guggenheim, how about that?
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