Comment by robocat
My economic theory is that the price reflects ecological costs fairly well.
At first glance it might appear that fixing would have a lower environmental cost. But the money spent will be spent by the repairman on things like international travel or whatever - and each of the things the money is spent on have environmental costs and externalities.
I don’t quite think so. I think we’re in a status quo that prevents/obfuscates a more efficient economic activity because it inflates GDP which makes the politicians and economists happy.
The magic number won’t go up much if you call somebody and they tell you what you need to do change the PCB and ship you the part(for a small markup price).