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I recognize and respect the point, but there's a pretty major differences: Raw material cost, automate-ability, and scale.

We have processes to get super pure silicon in huge chunks that can be processed basically entirely by computers and robots there on out (and in fat people touching it would be actively bad). Yeah, sure, there's a huge upfront cost in terms of machines to handle and etch the silicon and so on, but you get to amortize it over milllions and millions of units - a new fab was not created for the Jetson Nano.

Meanwhile, basically every appliance, furniture piece, etc both requires more expensive of raw materials, and requires a decent amount of human intervention and, especially for furniture, expertise during manufacturing, meaning that cost per unit doesn't scale as well as electronics. Not to mention they all sell in lower volumes per up-front skill person hour dedicated to that thing.