All those placards and protest banners have got it wrong. We don’t want to eat the rich. We’d much prefer simply to snack on them. Who needs to sit through seven hours of White Lotus to understand that the wealthy are boring and beautiful and fascinating and ghastly? You can get all that in 30 seconds on Instagram, if you know where to look, and still have room for a tweet or two about the Sussexes before breakfast.
A case in point, if the comments sections of a certain corner of TikTok are to be believed, is that of Countess Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck—a 20-year-old European aristo and Parsons student who ticks certain very Zeitgeist-y boxes (nepo baby: check) while beautifully defying others. This is not “quiet luxury” or “stealth wealth”: it’s boom-box couture, clown-face riches.
