It's interesting - I've only got about 5 pieces of furniture I'd feel an super strong desire to move with. But I also don't think anybody is going to give me a furniture stipend to replace the furniture I do characterize as totally and easily substitutable.

It'd be a huge gamble. Many things can't be replaced. Mostly you'll be forced to get "similar" things. Different manufactures. Different model numbers. Enshittification means that you'll often be stuck with something much worse than what you had.

With prices about to skyrocket and shelves about to be empty thanks to tariffs, mismanagement of the economy, and pissing off the people we depend on for nearly everything we have you'd have to be crazy to throw out everything you have and assume you'll save money buying new replacements for everything you lost.

They are NOT suggesting downsizing, entirely sensible practice.

They say to sell everything except what can fit in one briefcase, and to buy all that stuff new in the new place.

Super time consuming and expensive.

I don't want someone's used bed or used sofa, so I'll have to buy new. Almost everything depreciates with time, so you're looking at a house of the good, usable stuff that can be sold or donated for a fraction of the price over the course of weeks (in the meanwhile you can wash your family clothes in the river and eat out), and then spend weeks buying brand new stuff (I'm not sure if either of you knows how much the household equipment costs).

You're both likely talking from the perspective of the single małe loving in the small furnished flat and moving to another furnished flat. In that one edge case selling everything and buying new may work.

(just don't move the goalposts: you're effectively discussing with the stance no one took, because no one was arguing downsizing)