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Historian Answers Gilded Age Questions

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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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