Move over, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, it seems Kim Kardashian’s bougie backyard town has launched the need for yet another KarJenner-helmed reality series — Keeping Up With the Konfines of Late-Stage Kapitalism. 


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Earlier this week, Kardashian found herself as Twitter’s latest unwitting main character after images of her boujee backyard play structure made the rounds on Twitter yet again this week, sparking anger and frustration that the beauty mogul’s four children (North, 9; Saint, 7; Chicago, 5; and Psalm, 3) are cosplaying as baristas for shits and gigs.



Dubbed “Lil’ Hidden Hills” after their high-end SoCal community, the faux town is nicer than most Midwest strip malls — or any middle-American strip mall for that matter. Featuring a branded Starbucks, a 1950s style diner, a firehouse, and of course, a KKW Beauty storefront, Kardashian’s mini-town seemingly hit a nerve on social media, sparking a whole lot of rage from a whole lot of normal people.




Now, before ya’ll whip out your pitchforks and torches and book a one-way ticket to Calabasas, the former K9 Magazine covergirl isn’t the only One Percenter to use the plight of The PoorsTM as a teachable moment for their children. Former French Queen/rumored champagne glass-titty model Marie Antoinette did exactly the same thing. 


In 1783, Antoinette found time amid her packed royal agenda of taking the blame for her husband’s dick problems, mismanagement of French funds and notably *not* saying “let them eat cake” to commission an entire faux village at her Trianon garden.




Known as The Queen’s Hamlet, the addition featured a manmade lake and a whole host of peasant-y structures, including a decorative windmill (Antoinette walked so roadside mini-golf courses could soar) and a series of buildings inspired by the architecture of rural locales, Though contrary to popular misconception, Antoinette and her (also probably now-headless) pals didn’t cosplay as the proletariat — sorry tankies! — the ruler demanded that the farm remain in operation, offering a learning experience for her kids. 


“The fact that the hamlet was also a functioning farm, a point upon which the queen insisted, meant that it served an educational role for the royal children,” reads an article detailing the history of The Queen’s Hamlet shared to the official Chateâu de Versailles website. 


Though Kim K’s playground may confirm that we’re living in a spasm of late-stage capitalism not seen since the 18th century, there’s still a silver lining amid our renewed class struggle — sourdough and ‘shrooms sure as hell beat moldy bread reserves.