Consider This!
Everything we purchase,
every dollar we spend,
is an investment in something.
If we buy crappy, cheaply constructed "throw-away" furniture made of particle board - we are buying space in a landfill in the not too distant future.
If we compound that by buying furniture - or any stuff - that was made for pennies a day by slave/child labor shops,we just made their lives worth pennies a day.
And we made the owner of the shop and CEO of the company very, very rich, happy, and dependent on us remaining unthinking, unconscious, consumers.