The Statue of Liberty product-swap — the commercial iconography of Subsidized Time

texture · standing, Subsidized era

• When: standing condition of the Subsidized era (the product changed each 1 January)
• What: Liberty Island's statue now holds aloft not a torch but "a product," swapped out each New Year's Day to match the year's corporate sponsor — the most literal emblem of Subsidized Time, the nation's founding icon repurposed as a rotating billboard. The film's header montage records the ritual's cost: a fed engineer killed in a "freak" accident with the Whopper year's five-ton cast-iron burger (086).