A closer look
Those joyful bursts of paper raining from the ceiling are actually highly regulated safety materials. After several tragic historical fires caused by combustible decorations, modern safety codes strictly mandate that any material blasted into a crowd must be chemically treated to resist flames. The sheer cost of manufacturing flame-retardant tissue paper is astronomical, meaning that momentary burst of colorful joy is actually a massive corporate expense entirely dictated by paranoid safety regulators.
