Confirmation bias: all the shite furniture from 1800s has rotted to dust already
Edit for full disclosure: I've exclusively bought antique furniture. I'm basically a shill for big-auction
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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I think it's survivorship bias, but yes
Also the one from their grandma cost 3 months wage at the time and they probably got it as their wedding gift. Totally comparable to 25$ worth of composite 👍
Here's a picture of the furniture my grandparents left me:
Too exhausted to grab images but...
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The amount I spent on college versus the amount that they spent on college
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their pension versus my pension
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cost of their home versus cost of my home
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amount of adults in their household that had to work to support a family versus amount of adults in my household that have to work to support a family
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Their CEO pay gap versus my CEO pay gap
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number of summers where they took a week-long family vacation versus number of summers that I took a week-long family vacation
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cost of a family trip to Disney for them versus no fucking way I could even consider affording that shit, let alone paying an overall subscription for quicker lines and somehow also individual extra charges per ride to get on those rides in less than three hours.
If cheap furniture made by compressing glue and sawdust together existed 100 years ago, I bet it would have sold well.
Same goes for shoes. Everyone's wearing terrible plastic stuff nowadays.
Chipboard was one of those things invented twice simultaneously during WWII, as the Germans and Americans looked around for resources to exploit and noticed the massive amounts of sawdust they had piling up. Chipboard cabinetry and furniture starts to emerge in the 1950's. Ikea was founded in 1943 and started selling furniture in 1948. So cheap particle board furniture existed ~80 years ago, and did indeed sell well.
One thing for sure, is way easier to carry
And dust
That totally leads to Narnia
Where does the IKEA one lead?
Nørniä obviously
You mean one portal to hell vs one support call line to Sweden.
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