> that is why carpenters are still around and no one buys Ikea

The irony in this statement is hilarious, and perfectly sums up the reality of the situation IMO.

For anyone who doesn't understand the irony: a carpenter is someone who makes things like houses, out of wood. They absolutely still fucking exist.

Industrialised furniture such as IKEA sells has reduced the reliance on a workforce of cabinet makers - people who make furniture using joinery.

Now if you want to go ask a carpenter to make you a table he can probably make one, but it's going to look like construction lumber nailed together. Which is also quite a coincidence when you consider the results of asking spicy autocomplete to do anything more complex than auto-complete a half-written line of code.

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cake-rusk 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think you have misunderstood what a carpenter is. A carpenter is someone who makes wooden furniture (among other things).

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gspr 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> I think you have misunderstood what a carpenter is. A carpenter is someone who makes wooden furniture (among other things).

I think _you_ have misunderstood what a carpenter is. At least where I live, you might get a carpenter to erect the wood framing for a house. Or build a wooden staircase. Or erect a drywall. I'm sure most carpenters worth their salt could plausibly also make wooden furniture, at an exorbitant cost, but it's not at all what they do.

I sanity checked with Wiktionary, and it agrees: "A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures."

	▲	cake-rusk 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/carpente... a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures

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fuzztester 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpentry

Carpenters make many things besides houses.

See the section "Types of carpentry".