Bag of Unicorn Farts

If it weren’t explicitly used to move capital up into the hands of the hyper-rich, you’d have to admire the genius of marketing. Selling one ounce of cotton candy for an enormous markup, and pushing the product to #1 on the best-seller list in its category, is a technical triumph as much as it is a moral failure.

“But ten percent of the profits are donated to charities!” you cry, in horror. Yes, and even if that’s true, you’re still giving ninety percent of the profits to someone marking up cotton candy. (The manufacturer doesn’t specify which charities they donate to, nor provides proof that they’ve done so, by the way.)