We may be getting off on a tangent here, but seat belt prices aren't really amortized. They are a hidden cost since we aren't told the price, and they are cheap

We may be getting off on a tangent here, but seat belt prices aren't really amortized. They are a hidden cost since we aren't told the price, and they are cheaper than if they were an option but that's mainly due to manufacturing efficiencies. Requiring seatbelts would never make them cheaper than having no seatbelts. Lowering the barrier to entry is only really a benefit to those who would opt in anyway, it forces those who wouldn't want it to pay the cost of that. In the original topic, my main point was that if consumers are made aware of the current safety issues Boeing has had and ultimately don't factor that in at all when flying then we really should be done here. The FAA doesn't need to do anything to protect the public if the public has shown that it just doesn't care, and people/media should stop talking about it as though its a controversy when consumers are just as willing to fly Boeing as they are Airbus.