{"id":211,"date":"2006-12-04T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2006\/12\/04\/ikea-or-the-bible-hobsons-choice\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T01:51:09","slug":"ikea-or-the-bible-hobsons-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/ikea-or-the-bible-hobsons-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea or the Bible: Hobsons Choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"kamprad.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/kamprad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image210\" height=\"47\" alt=\"kamprad.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/kamprad.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C47\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IKEA\" target=\"_blank\">Ikea<\/a>, there\u2019s more to think about than funny Scandinavian names and meatballs. Did you know, for example, that the Ikea catalogue now rivals the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gideons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bible<\/a> in terms of copies printed annually?<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad, started the business when he was 17 years old. He is dyslexic, and is an admitted alcoholic. His personal fortune is estimated to be either $28 billion (Forbes) or $53 billion (German T-Online.)<\/p>\n<p>Kamprad is a notorious cheapskate, I mean he\u2019s unusually frugal. He drives an old Volvo and always flies economy class. He \u201cencourages&#8221; his employees to write on both sides of&nbsp;\u00a0a paper. I once had a boss who made us reuse the same teabag several times, but that\u2019s a whole different story.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, it was revealed that Kamprad had been a recruiter and fundraiser for a pro-Nazi <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_League_of_Sweden\" target=\"_blank\">group<\/a>, up until September 1945. He\u2019s really sorry, though, and he\u2019d still like you to buy KLIPPAN,&nbsp;\u00a0 DUKTIG, GUTVIK and EKTORP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you go to Ikea, there\u2019s more to think about than funny Scandinavian names and meatballs. Did you know, for example, that the Ikea catalogue now rivals the Bible in terms of copies printed annually? The founder of Ikea, Ingvar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/ikea-or-the-bible-hobsons-choice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-3p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}