All of the Dw episodes I’ve seen are like “SHOCK!!! Nobody talks about that but we made this sensational news!!!” Jesus, I just don’t trust them, I don’t know
I’ll just briefly add that a lot of illegally cut wood go to Romania from Ukraine.
The amount of downvotes I’ve had before whenever I’ve tried to highlight rampant corruption and the illegal deforestation IKEA conducts.
On top of this they pay zero tax because they use loopholes in Hollands tax system.
Their furniture is really poor quality chipboard too. That’s why its cheap.
Unfortunately the cost of corruption and illegal deforestation and lost tax revenue. It may be cheap but the cost to the environment and the species that live there is huge. For cheap shit
Just buy some really nice second hand real furniture, you’ll be doing the environment and local economy a huge favour. You won’t regret it when you have solid proper furniture either. So much nicer.
It’s kinda funny how progressive and eco IKEA wants to appear.
The lesson here is the following: Politicians and businessmen from the former communist bloc are corrupt because they steal from their own people. Politicians and buisnessmen from “civilized” and “advanced” western countries are not corrupt because they steal from other people (that or from immigrants)
Ikea has great forestry education. The issue is with local people who do not follow the education and forest management.
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Properly **manged forests** are profitable and keep giving off income for ever. The issue is that the forests in corrupt places are not managed properly.
The Dark Side of Ikea sounds so damn funny to me. Sounds like something Tyler Durden would say.
I’ve cut ties with this company for years. It has become increasingly expensive over the years while losing quality and removing from catalogue items that actually were good.
I will nonetheless praise their engineering. Most products are made with bare minimum material and can easily be emulated and even upgraded using solid wood or other materials.
A lot of folks here talking about how IKEA isn’t a Swedish company because they are “headquartered” in the Netherlands. However they have their main design offices just outside of Malmö in Southern Sweden. I personally have met and know many designers that have created different models of furniture for the company. They live in Sweden. They works in Sweden.
It seems like folks here don’t understand that you can have your HQ in another country for tax purposes but still have offices in another country where the actual work takes place. Facebook, Dropbox and other companies are HQ’d in Ireland. I don’t think that makes them an Irish company.
I’m not taking IKEAs side on anything. I think they make some good practical items for low income purposes, but their practices are absolutely questionable and should be spotlighted to force them to do better. But people complaining here that they aren’t a Swedish company are completely ignorant.
IKEA is evil. They continue buying wood in Belarus knowing how the government kept overcutting forests last year. Business before ethics.
So the illegal thing they found out that IKEA was doing was not planting oaks close enough to each other?
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All of the Dw episodes I’ve seen are like “SHOCK!!! Nobody talks about that but we made this sensational news!!!” Jesus, I just don’t trust them, I don’t know
I’ll just briefly add that a lot of illegally cut wood go to Romania from Ukraine.
The amount of downvotes I’ve had before whenever I’ve tried to highlight rampant corruption and the illegal deforestation IKEA conducts.
On top of this they pay zero tax because they use loopholes in Hollands tax system.
Their furniture is really poor quality chipboard too. That’s why its cheap.
Unfortunately the cost of corruption and illegal deforestation and lost tax revenue. It may be cheap but the cost to the environment and the species that live there is huge. For cheap shit
Just buy some really nice second hand real furniture, you’ll be doing the environment and local economy a huge favour. You won’t regret it when you have solid proper furniture either. So much nicer.
It’s kinda funny how progressive and eco IKEA wants to appear.
The lesson here is the following: Politicians and businessmen from the former communist bloc are corrupt because they steal from their own people. Politicians and buisnessmen from “civilized” and “advanced” western countries are not corrupt because they steal from other people (that or from immigrants)
Ikea has great forestry education. The issue is with local people who do not follow the education and forest management.
​
Properly **manged forests** are profitable and keep giving off income for ever. The issue is that the forests in corrupt places are not managed properly.
The Dark Side of Ikea sounds so damn funny to me. Sounds like something Tyler Durden would say.
I’ve cut ties with this company for years. It has become increasingly expensive over the years while losing quality and removing from catalogue items that actually were good.
I will nonetheless praise their engineering. Most products are made with bare minimum material and can easily be emulated and even upgraded using solid wood or other materials.
A lot of folks here talking about how IKEA isn’t a Swedish company because they are “headquartered” in the Netherlands. However they have their main design offices just outside of Malmö in Southern Sweden. I personally have met and know many designers that have created different models of furniture for the company. They live in Sweden. They works in Sweden.
It seems like folks here don’t understand that you can have your HQ in another country for tax purposes but still have offices in another country where the actual work takes place. Facebook, Dropbox and other companies are HQ’d in Ireland. I don’t think that makes them an Irish company.
I’m not taking IKEAs side on anything. I think they make some good practical items for low income purposes, but their practices are absolutely questionable and should be spotlighted to force them to do better. But people complaining here that they aren’t a Swedish company are completely ignorant.
IKEA is evil. They continue buying wood in Belarus knowing how the government kept overcutting forests last year. Business before ethics.
So the illegal thing they found out that IKEA was doing was not planting oaks close enough to each other?
Typical Swedes to be hypocrites.