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Why are most sofas so bad?

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Re: Why are most sofas so bad?

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> People like my grandparents built this country by saving and sacrificing their comforts. I don't mind saving and sacrificing, that sounds awesome. The problem is that I'm not saving, sacrificing, working hard, etc. for any meaningful purpose, it's exclusively to subsidize some greedy CEOs/oligarchs luxurious lifestyles.

It doesn't matter if the work itself is meaningful, the meaning is the saving/sacrifice. How many people earn without someone else earning off their back? Very few. My grandfather was a door to door salesman, worked in a clothing factory cutting fabric, bartended, bussed tables, worked in kitchens. My grandmother worked at a candy factory. There's this funny notion now that work needs to be personally fulfilling or i…

Focusing on some of the largest man-made social problems that trickles down to all aspects of one's daily life and materially effects the largest number of people world-wide, often hurting them orders of magnitudes more than it's hurting me, is a strange thing to call a "cop out".

Re: Why are most sofas so bad?

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This only makes sense when upholsterers dont cost more than buying an entirely new sofa. My family used to reupholster furniture every 5 years and it was cheap because my mother had an interior design firm and got very good rates.

I tried the same here in the US with some high end Scandinavian furniture ($5k), the quote was up to 1x what I originally paid. In the end it made sense to just buy new again.

The cost of labor of where you reside has a significant effect on whether you purchase another 'junk' piece of furniture.

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