American magic bean companies like Beanco, The Boston Bean Company, and Nvidia have already shed hundreds of billions of dollars in stock value as investors contemplate getting their magic beans from overseas.
"I still believe that, five years from now, civilisation will be structured entirely around OpenBean beans,” said bean industry titan Sam Altbean. “I can’t offer any supporting evidence for that, but I do believe it."
America’s magic bean market is in turmoil after a Chinese company unveiled a competing bean that’s less than one tenth the price but still just as useless.