[ WP ] Your decision not to buy a chewing gum at the grocery store causes a series of events that lead to global economic collapse .

A man decided not to purchase gum one day. 
 
 As he was checking out, the man behind him bought a pack of gum. 
 
 The man behind him, as it turns out, bought the supermarket's 1,000,000 pack of gum. 
 
 He was given a $ 10,000 prize for doing so. 
 
 Later the gum-man, being prudent financially, set up an investing account with those 10 grand. 
 
 The man's wife, being less than prudent, put all the money into a canned sandwich company her girlfriends had told her about. 
 
 The man sighed deeply. 
 
 The canned sandwich company took off, and the man and his entire family were now a new financial dynasty. 
 
 The family invests significantly in a new startup; bonsai kittens. 
 
 Several generations later, John D. Cannedsandwichfeller was driving his sandwich-patterned Rolls Royce, when he ran over a homeless man. 
 
 The homeless man sued him for all John was worth. 
 
 They Cannedsandwichfellers had to file for bankruptcy, and sell off all their assets. 
 
 Monsanto purchased all of their shares in Bonsai Kittens LLC. 
 
 Lo and behold, the combined scientific prowess of Monsanto and Bonsai Kittens LLC. manage to produce bonsai kittens; small, furry, and adorable. 
 
 The small size of the bonsai kitten means it reproduces at an alarming rate. 
 
 Their intense adorability means that no human can resist the urge to care for it. 
 
 As the tidal wave of bonsai kittens surges over all the continents, human everywhere each become the caretakers of one or two kittens. 
 
 One or two quickly becomes fifty or sixty. 
 
 Fifty or sixty becomes eighty seven thousand, two hundred ninety three and three quarters ( One is even smaller and more adorable than the rest ). 
 
 With over eighty seven thousand tiny mouths to feed, every human on earth depletes both their food stores and their bank accounts in a futile attempt to feed the kittens. 
 
 All humanity is now doomed. 
 
 If only that one dude bought gum instead of that one other dude.
