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Professional fireworks displays incinerate massive budgets

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There is no metaphor here; this is literal budget incineration. Municipalities and private events will gladly pack millions of dollars into cardboard tubes and shoot them into the sky for twenty minutes of loud noises. The sheer cost of the choreography, chemical compounds, and safety personnel makes it the most transient, economically absurd spectacle humans have ever invented.

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