The world's richest person

Posted on April 06, 2004 @ 07:51 in General

Apparently the founder of IKEA is now richer than Bill Gates. Am I the only one who sees a little irony here? I mean, Microsoft sells the software equivalent of a very pricey, very spiffy couch that got delivered to your house by delivery guys who wear velvet gloves in order not to leave any fingerprints on your Himalayan yak leather, but that couch will just never accomodate your spine in the right way and the yak leather is better to look at than to sit on, and you only keep it around because, well, it's already there and you spend so much money on it. Then there's IKEA, who sell you the furniture equivalent of a Linux distribution and although it's a bitch to put together and there's this one shelf you managed to put in backwards but never got around to putting right, it kind of grows on you and after some time you even think back fondly about that horrid evening when you put it all together and got it working.

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  1. LOL :)

    Posted by Jill on April 06, 2004 @ 11:37

  2. Hahaha...I never saw it that way, but you're right, Frank...and very funny! :)

    Posted by tommy on April 08, 2004 @ 15:23

  3. Yes,it reminds me of running a screw into my hand.I was later consoled by my wife finishing the job for me Thanks for the memories.

    Posted by Mike on April 14, 2004 @ 12:47

  4. Nice said! Especially the Linux part ;-)

    Posted by BOK on April 16, 2004 @ 16:40

  5. That's definately one wat to look at it!!

    Posted by Linu on May 25, 2004 @ 13:21

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