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Unless they live to be 170+ (assuming they're 20 when they buy their own fridge) the $400 one every 5 years is definitely a better deal than one that lasts a lifetime and costs 30x as much.
$10k is definitely hyperbolic, but the "built for life" refrigerators were about $2k in today's dollars.
And see 2k is a good price. I would spend that on a well made fridge.
The options however are piss poor cheap fridge for $400, fridge with a bunch of fancy crap but no real improvement in life/performance for $2,000, or a fridge that is high quality for north of $5,000.
That's ignoring all the problems created by those fridges failing at random.
Still, the GP's ratio is wild. There's no way a fridge that lasts a lifetime costs 30x more to make. It's all monopoly practices.
Plus the environmental impact of replacing a fridge.