Some of the problem is that people used to have big families and when it was time to move out of the parents, often furniture was donated towards the new home so that there was a turnover of products. Now that families are either having much fewer children or none at all, the furniture is piling up until they die and then released at once... The way that the Globalists envision the future world is that nobody owns anything and you just rent what you need when you need it - I suspect that oak furniture will be in over supply for a long time if they get their way....