I dislike Ikea because they exploit the end consumer's surplus labor.
We are not the same.
How is the end consumer's surplus labor exploited? It's not like you pay a deposit which you get back, or receive a rebate for making it to any specification.
It's a product, it's cheaper and more portable* than any new alternative, you put it together with dowels and allen wrenches.
Fun fact: Ingvar Kamprad, the oligarch who founded IKEA and from whose name the brand name is derived, was a personal friend of Swedish fascist leader Per Engdahl and was an active member of not one but two fascist groups, Engdahl's "New Swedish Movement" as well as the Swedish Nazi Party.
In 1942 the then 16 year old Kamprad joined Engdahl's group in which he was active until at least september 1945. A 1943 report from the Swedish secret police concluded that Kamprad held some sort of official position within the Nazi Party. Kamprad remained a personal friend of Engdahl until at least the 1950s. As late as 2010 he called Engdahl "a great man" in an interview.
I actually really enjoy assembling Ikea furniture but the end result is not worth it. I'd much rather find a solid piece of furniture at a second hand shop that'll last more than a couple year even if I don't get to put it together myself
I think I just really like following step-by-step instructions
I feel the same way. Assembling furniture is kind of like when you were a kid and got a new Lego set.
That makes me wonder; what's the lego death star of ikea?
Clearing entire forests to make disposable shit furniture that can't survive a single move.
Also, they lure you in with Social Democracy's siren song of gravy and meatballs. SuccDem meatballs.
