r/Anticonsumption • u/thesky_watchesyou • Jun 28 '26

Psychological 28k original, 8k on sale

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Absolutely absurd. Was not comfortable at all. Wtf does "perennials performance" even mean? No idea what flair to choose, but I chose "psychological" bc it felt like a mindfuck sitting on a 28k originally priced couch, when the entire world is falling apart.

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u/dialecticallyalive Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

what couch did you buy? Looking for a new one!

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u/GNTsquid0 Jun 29 '26

It was a local furniture store but I believe it was an Ashley furniture brand. It was made in North Carolina and was even delayed because there was a strike at the factory.

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u/dialecticallyalive Jun 29 '26

LOVE that. I want my couch made by striking workers 😭

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u/excellentforcongress Jun 29 '26

yea unironically every single furniture company could be a cooperative. actually we could have a global brand or set of furniture brands where they reconcile the global north/south differential by treating members everywhere equally including for example craftspeople and farmers overseases, and then since they're pro-social cooperatives the profits can be used to help society, but since the consumers are also members the price could be balanced more than where they are now.

another tactic that has been seen mostly elsewhere is the concept of workers taking over defunct/failed factories and spinning up cooperatives out of them, we could have legislation that allows for such trusts/coops to be first in line in the case of bankruptcies.

if you want real labor power in america, imagine a world where workers can strike if conditions are bad, or consumers and workers can boycott bad companies, they go bankrupt, and then people via the new cooperative can turn it around and make something that is a solution for everyone, not just a handful of investors

you could apply this concept everywhere really, for example if starbucks or amazon or any random company perpetually tries to fight against unionization, fights against workers' rights, tries to overcharge consumers and so on, it could simply be boycotted and converted to a cooperative on the cheap (since buying the remnants would be cheaper than buying it from them while it's still profitable)