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As someone in the repair industry, I can tell you this meme is nonsense.
Refurbished, reused, repaired, or otherwise remanufactured parts are almost always inferior to new ones. That’s not opinion, that’s reality. They’ve always been worse and always will be, at least until corporations stop playing the profit maximization game.
The truth is, these companies don’t care about quality. Their only goal is to spend the absolute minimum making old parts “usable” again, which leads to a massive percentage of defective components flooding the market.
This is the exact point of the meme, see the second frame.
I guess if you need more explicit speech you could add "to as good as or better than new condition" to the first frame.
Repaired parts, yes.
But you can use new parts to repair an existing device to as good or even better condition.
Old parts can then be recycled. If the part can't be recycled, see the OP meme.
Companies largely respond to what their consumers expect.
Snap on makes high quality buy it for life products with an excellent warranty because they have a consumer base that values these things and will pay for it.
Red Wing makes decent boots you can buy for cheap or buy it for Life boots if you're willing to spend the money. Because they have both of those consumers.
TCL makes disposable televisions with a 2-year life for consumers who are singularly concerned with the display size to dollar ratio.