> a TV which is next to worthless after a couple of years
Oh, wait, you won't get it, you expect to throw away perfectly working devices frequently.
The desk looks like there is maybe $50 worth of materials and maybe 2 hours worth of work there (I'm taking for granted they know what they're doing and can do a lot of it pretty efficiently). So that's what, between $100-$200 material and labor. Where is the other $1300 of value coming from?
Some people have constrained budgets
> a TV which is next to worthless after a couple of years
Oh, wait, you won't get it, you expect to throw away perfectly working devices frequently.
The desk looks like there is maybe $50 worth of materials and maybe 2 hours worth of work there (I'm taking for granted they know what they're doing and can do a lot of it pretty efficiently). So that's what, between $100-$200 material and labor. Where is the other $1300 of value coming from?