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Because it costs them less than onboarding. IKEA would never pay more than they can get away with: https://www.fastcompany.com/3035734/ikea-is-a-nonprofit-and-y

Because it costs them less than onboarding. IKEA would never pay more than they can get away with: https://www.fastcompany.com/3035734/ikea-is-a-nonprofit-and-yes-thats-every-bit-as-fishy-as-it-sounds https://www.fastcompany.com/3035734/ikea-is-a-nonprofit-and-... (TIL Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA's founder, was a part of the pro-nazi Nysvenska party during WW2. If he were from occupied Norway, he would never even have gotten the chance to start IKEA, people didn't buy from quislings. But Sweden was neutral, a very different climate after the war.)

Edd1CC 2y ago
Sweden was "neutral" but big on nazism topics such as eugenics. I spoke about this yesterday with some Swedes (I recently moved to Sweden).
- sofixa 2y ago
  > Sweden was "neutral" but big on nazism topics such as eugenics. Social Darwinism, including eugenics, was quite socially acceptable until the Nazis made it unpopular by association, and even then many countries (US, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, I forget which one in Latin America that sterilised poor women without telling them, etc.) still continued practising some parts of it for decades after. It only really became accepted as flat out wrong in the developed world what, in the 70s-90s (as an example, Canada's last residential school closed in 1997)?
- dagw 2y ago
  It'd be more correct to say that the Nazis were big on Swedish topics such as eugenics. Sweden was world leading in eugenics 'research' for decades before the Nazi party was founded, and the State Institute for Eugenics Research wasn't closed down until 1958.
_wueg 2y ago
I don't like big multinationals anymore than the next guy, but if you're going to link an article to strengthen your argument you might consider linking to the original (instead of an article based on a reddit post based on the article): https://www.onlinemba.com/blog/why-ikea-is-non-profit/ https://www.onlinemba.com/blog/why-ikea-is-non-profit/ Then we also note that the original article was published by an MBA scheme website, apparently re-writing one of The Economists articles (to generate clicks?). With regards to your TIL, it's also worth noting that Kamprad's memberships were not public information until 1994 (during a "confessional" letter to IKEA employees), by which IKEA had long become an everyday staple in Sweden. Contrary to what was suggested, the Swedish population in the 1950s didn't see a furniture store owned by a Nazi sympathizer and thought "here is someone I can relate to, take my money!".
timeon 2y ago
> If he were from occupied Norway, he would never even have gotten the chance to start IKEA, people didn't buy from quislings How about Knut Hamsun?
- kreyenborgi 2y ago
  Hamsun was rich, famous and beloved before the war. After the war, his books were burned, his wife and sons were imprisoned and there was a huge court case which nearly financially ruined his family > Hamsun was subjected to humiliating clinical psychiatric tests in Oslo, and having been told that he was suffering from "lasting weakened mental capacities", was eventually fined 325,000 kroner after a civil action found him guilty of NS membership. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/knut-hamsun-centre https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/knut-hamsun-ce... > In later years, studies and inquiries have shown that justice was administered unevenly and—by today's standards—harshly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_purge_in_Norway_after_World_War_II#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_purge_in_Norway_after_Wo...

Edd1CC 2y ago

Sweden was "neutral" but big on nazism topics such as eugenics. I spoke about this yesterday with some Swedes (I recently moved to Sweden).

sofixa 2y ago
> Sweden was "neutral" but big on nazism topics such as eugenics. Social Darwinism, including eugenics, was quite socially acceptable until the Nazis made it unpopular by association, and even then many countries (US, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, I forget which one in Latin America that sterilised poor women without telling them, etc.) still continued practising some parts of it for decades after. It only really became accepted as flat out wrong in the developed world what, in the 70s-90s (as an example, Canada's last residential school closed in 1997)?
dagw 2y ago
It'd be more correct to say that the Nazis were big on Swedish topics such as eugenics. Sweden was world leading in eugenics 'research' for decades before the Nazi party was founded, and the State Institute for Eugenics Research wasn't closed down until 1958.

_wueg 2y ago

I don't like big multinationals anymore than the next guy, but if you're going to link an article to strengthen your argument you might consider linking to the original (instead of an article based on a reddit post based on the article): https://www.onlinemba.com/blog/why-ikea-is-non-profit/ https://www.onlinemba.com/blog/why-ikea-is-non-profit/ Then we also note that the original article was published by an MBA scheme website, apparently re-writing one of The Economists articles (to generate clicks?). With regards to your TIL, it's also worth noting that Kamprad's memberships were not public information until 1994 (during a "confessional" letter to IKEA employees), by which IKEA had long become an everyday staple in Sweden. Contrary to what was suggested, the Swedish population in the 1950s didn't see a furniture store owned by a Nazi sympathizer and thought "here is someone I can relate to, take my money!".

timeon 2y ago

> If he were from occupied Norway, he would never even have gotten the chance to start IKEA, people didn't buy from quislings How about Knut Hamsun?

kreyenborgi 2y ago
Hamsun was rich, famous and beloved before the war. After the war, his books were burned, his wife and sons were imprisoned and there was a huge court case which nearly financially ruined his family > Hamsun was subjected to humiliating clinical psychiatric tests in Oslo, and having been told that he was suffering from "lasting weakened mental capacities", was eventually fined 325,000 kroner after a civil action found him guilty of NS membership. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/knut-hamsun-centre https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/knut-hamsun-ce... > In later years, studies and inquiries have shown that justice was administered unevenly and—by today's standards—harshly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_purge_in_Norway_after_World_War_II#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_purge_in_Norway_after_Wo...