Every Era Gets the Kink It Deserves

Wealth dysmorphia isn’t new. From flappers to FinDoms, we’ve always dressed crisis like control—and sold the performance back to each other.

We’re living through a moment where wealth is a cosplay economy—and your feed is full of people who look like they summer in Sardinia but are actually taking Uber Pool to therapy. The New York Times recently gave money dysmorphia its mainstream moment, but if you’ve been online in the last three years, you didn’t need the headline. You’ve felt it: that …