So Joe Q. Random dying or getting maimed in an avoidable car crash is a 'cost to society' but your laptop not working is not? "Cost to society" is a term where

So Joe Q. Random dying or getting maimed in an avoidable car crash is a 'cost to society' but your laptop not working is not? "Cost to society" is a term where I suspect various people will assign various different meanings to it. Either we all explain what that term is supposed to mean, or, we use a different term. In this case, I'm pretty sure the comment which started with the cost to society (speaking about the idea that an out-of-court settlement should reflect 'the cost to society') clearly meant: Take the # of laptops failing and becoming unusable due to the problems with the butterfly keyboard design, minus all people who get them fixed within 1 year warranty, and multiply it by $700, which is what owners of these laptops have to pay apple to get it fixed out of warranty. The point that was presumably being made is that the out of court settlement should be similar enough to the internal (to apple) cost of apple's repair program, or possibly even this $700*affected number. The idea being, if it isn't, apple will simply settle out of court because it's cheaper for them to do this. There's really no need to bring some sort of comparison between random car drivers and users of 'hippie' laptops into it, that seems unduly presumptuous of you.