An example reason a "smart contrarian" person will give IRL that I don't find convincing is "couches are heavy, of course a couches are expensive. Just think of how much that much wood would cost at Home Depot".
Like, sure, but do you know how much a car weighs and have you tried to price out the fancy alloys that go into new car? A cheap new car costs $18k and weighs 2600 lbs, or $7/lb. The cheapest couch I can find on ikea.com (might be off by a bit) is $400 and weighs 82lbs, $4.8/lb and
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