In an essay titled “The Tyranny of Small Decisions,” none other than Alfred E. Kahn once noted that
In order to keep the money flowing, in other words, big business interests “may” use their clout to ignore and suppress achingly obvious macro-choices, while pushing increasingly trivial micro-choices.
Behold, then, this:

That, friends, is one of our glorious economic system’s newest offerings. It is a $20 dental floss dispenser.
Nuff said.