@AncientGood всё верно. Мебель, которую делают японцы для японцев по японским правилам — это просто произведения искусства, без каких либо скидок.
То, что делают какие-нибудь Iwayado и Yoshino Mingei — это буквально шедевры, которые можно из магазина везти просто сразу в Эрмитаж. Сказать, что они сделаны безупречно — ничего не сказать.
Но там и цена для Эрмитажа, а мне нужен был буквально просто стол на кухню, прямо вот почти любой.
И судя по тому, сколько народу я встретил в магазине с крепежом и материалами, запилить себе стол своими руками — довольно популярная история даже в Токио, во-первых ассортимент магазина просто прекрасен, а во-вторых — народ прямо толпами шастает, вымеряет, и выпиливает.
Полагаю, что в остальной стране это ещё более развито.

I have just been reading how #Germany chemical giant #BASF has been moving its fertiliser production to #China and USA, while #Poland “Azoty” Group is struggling financially with fertilisers imports from… #Russia, who keeps them dirt cheap thanks to state subsidies.

I think this perfectly illustrates a specific form of economic suicide practised by the EU for many years. The embargo on Russian fertilisers in the EU is now being blocked by… #Hungary. Poland is instead lobbying for customs import tariffs and in theory Germany should be its ally here, except BASF has already moved its production out of EU.

The same is now going through with European battery or heat pump manufacturers, while European PV production has long since moved out.

European policy on economy vs environment is bipolar and one gets the impression that the two lobbies are operating in an entire factual isolation from each other.

The ‘environmental fortress’ has dug in to its positions and continues to push ‘ambitious’ emission reduction policies by any means - including those that globally don’t work. Just because emissions in accounting terms ‘disappear’ from the EU does not mean that they have been eliminated globally if they reappear in China - the atmosphere is perfectly indifferent to where specifically CO2 is emitted.

And the transfer of carbon-intensive production (e.g. PV) from the EU to China leads to a net drastic increase in global emissions due to low environmental standards in China, coal power plus long distance transport.

The ‘economic fortress’ reacts to this in the only way available, i.e. by increasing imports - and this literally kills production inside the EU, i.e. exacerbates the aforementioned phenomenon.

The thing is that the imports are a form of compromise with the ‘environmental fortress’, which agrees to them because ‘what you can’t see, you don’t feel sorry for’. Every closed factory or mine in the EU is a ‘victory’ for them (never mind that it reappers in China, that’s ‘elsewhere’), and on top of that, production from China is cheap, which fits the ‘environmental’ narrative of ‘cheap renewables’.

And yes, they are cheap because they are produced in a totalitarian country with no respect for labour rights, environmental protection and with high-carbon energy. Added to this is the long-term cost of monopoly, as China already controls 80% of the global PV supply chain - not just manufacturing! Anyone opening a new PV factory still depends on Chinese raw materials.

And yes, this also applies to the USA, which - as one Polish activist recently argued to me - ‘became independent within a few years without a problem’, supposedly proving that the Chinese monopoly is not a problem.

And here we have another example of the bipolarity of the ‘environmental stronghold’, because everything the US has been doing in recent years in order to increase competitiveness - pragmatism in terms of reducing emissions and import tariffs - is perfectly opposite to what the EU is doing.

Three dogs were sitting in the waiting room at the vet’s, when they struck up a conversation. The Black Labrador turned to the yellow Labrador and said: “So, why are you here?”
The yellow Lab replied: “I’m a pisser. I piss on everything….the sofa, the curtains, the cat and the kids. But the final straw was last night, when I pissed in the middle of my owner’s bed.”
The black Lab said: “So what’s the vet going to do?”
“Gonna cut my nuts off,” came the reply from the yellow Lab.
“They reckon it’ll calm me down.”
The Yellow Lab then turned to the Black Lab and asked: “So, why are you here?”
The Black Lab said: “I’m a digger. I dig under fences, dig up flowers and trees. I dig just for the hell of it. When I’m inside, I dig up the carpets, but I went over the line last night, when I dug a great big hole in my owners’ couch.”
“So what are they going to do to you ? ” the Yellow Lab enquired.
“Looks like I’m losing my nuts too,” the dejected Black Lab said.
The Black Lab then turned to the Great Dane and asked: “Why are you here?”
“I’m a humper,” said the Great Dane. “I’ll hump anything. I’ll hump the cat, a pillow, the table, fence posts; I want to hump everything I see.”
Yesterday my owner had just got out of the shower and was bending down to dry her toes, and I just couldn’t help myself. I hopped on her back and started hammering away.”
The Black and the Yellow Labs exchanged a sad glance and said: “So, it’s nuts off for you too, huh?”
The Great Dane said: “No. Apparently I’m here to get my nails clipped!”