There was this French song in WW1 which became popular after 350000 humans died in a single battle in 1917 achieving NOTHING:

On the grands boulevards it's hard to look At all the rich and powerful whooping it up For them life is good But for us it's not the same Instead of hiding, all these shirkers Would do better to go up to the trenches To defend what they have, because we have nothing All of us poor wretches All our comrades are being buried there To defend the wealth of these gentlemen here.

The song was prohibited in France until 1974(!)