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I was happy to see that the author did pause to note the irony of this policy being implemented by the same country that brought the world IKEA.
by CPLX 10y ago
I was happy to see that the author did pause to note the irony of this policy being implemented by the same country that brought the world IKEA.
- _of 10y agoIt was not the government of Sweden that brought the world IKEA.
- ogrisel 10y agoNot everything is crappy at IKEA: you can get cheap mass pine wood furniture that looks pretty decent (if you paint it to fit your tastes). The cost of such furniture is often cheaper at IKEA than buying the planks of wood at a consumer store. There is also a tone of crappy pressed wood furnitures that will slowly decay and look ugly 5 years later or will just break and cannot be repaired.
- sotojuan 10y agoIKEA furniture is my parent's house is about ten years old and doing well. Not sure what people do with theirs, but ours lasts.
- ska 10y agoBesides the category error of conflating corporate and state implementations - complaining about the existence of IKEA is a bit like complaining about the existence of fast food. Clearly there is massive demand for both, so lobbing darts at the most successful producers of same avoids all of the interesting questions.
- CPLX 10y agoI don't detect any complaining in my post. Just noting the (considerable) irony in Sweden leading the charge against "disposable culture", as did the article's writer.
- ska 10y agoPerhaps I read more into it than you meant - fair enough. You are still conflating Sweden and IKEA, which is just silly. Also IKEA's m.o. is more cheap and cheerful than disposable, so what irony there is, is a bit weak.
- Gravityloss 10y agoHave you tried moving Ikea stuff? A lot of it is unlikely to stay in one piece. And I don't mean it can be disassembled and reassembled. Even their chipboard is of lower strength than ordinary, quite an achievement.