Well the thing with furniture is that it fills up your place quickly. As apartments get smaller (most countries are in a housing crisis) that pretty much stops people buying furniture they don't need.

I only ever buy furniture because I really have a need for it. Not because I think it's cool or anything.

That's great, but I assure you, a lot of people just throw out old furniture and buy new ones just because they feel like their old furniture is out of style.

Downsizing creates a market opening for cabinets, shelves, organizers and other things that let you utilize vertical space more efficiently.

>The problem is that, like with clothes, people THINK they need more and newer things all the time because Marketing tells them that they do.

This is a problem with capitalism, not IKEA or clothing.

Maybe, but companies do have choices and don't need to blindly maximize profit.

Yes they do, the system will punish them if they do otherwise:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/american-airlines-stock-si...

>American Airlines has tried to make amends, by announcing a significant pay raise for flight attendants and pilots , to take base pay rates to industry highs, years ahead of when union contracts would become amenable.

>The stock AAL, +6.63% tumbled as much as 8.6% in intraday trade, before paring some losses, even though the airline reported first-quarter earnings that beat expectations, while revenue rose in line with forecasts.

>“We are troubled by [American’s] wealth transfer of nearly $1 billion to its labor groups,” Baker wrote in a note to clients.