This week, I gave in. I tried to avoid it, I really did — but the Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos wedding content got me. And while watching billionaires kiss on a yacht, I found myself thinking about Marie Antoinette, Julius Caesar, and what happens every single time extreme wealth becomes too visible for the rest of us to ignore.
From Ancient Greece to Silicon Valley, history keeps reminding us: the crown doesn’t stay on forever.
We’re in an era of “let them eat cake.”
