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Because that 2 lifetimes table doesnt cost $800 thats what grandma paid for it in the 50s when buying a 4 bedroom house for $30,000 and working at the mill for 50 years was normal.
It also weighs 3 tons and given that you live in a shitty 1 bedroom apartment and have to move every 6 months to an even smaller shoebox that costs an increasing % of your income every damn time, Its probably for the best that your shit is disposable.
Everyone should get into woodworking, because then you can just make your own and it'll be twice as expensive and shittier than IKEA's version.
You had me in the first half...
Have you seen the price of finished wood these days. It'll probably be cheaper (although possibly more fatal) to buy a forest, cut your own trees down and build your own sawmill.
Seize the means, comrade!
In time of climate change you don't want to own a forest, unless you own a fire department, an insekt repellent company and a water plant to water them when there's a drought. Pump and dump is the way to go. Buy two table, store one on top of each other and sell it when inflation doubled it's price, so basically 6 months.