[szc]

A 13 gallon "garbage" bag, commonly used to dispose of waste in the USA weighs 22grams. Each Airpod, according to Apple, weights 4grams. (yeah, I'm just talking about plastic, but plastic really is part of this). The actual material (resource) cost of an Airpod is utterly insignificant (over the 3 years you cite as the lifetime) to the daily and weekly waste caused by each person in a western culture. The average waste per human for western cultures seems to be about 500+Kg per year. Over that time, the equivalent of about 375,000 Airpods. This is for materials disposed of each week, without thought - the numbers I'm using do not include any materials that are recycled. What is the actual useful "lifetime" of this garbage or trash? Perhaps a week? Or if it was a Starbucks coffee cup lid, perhaps 30 minutes. Doubtful it was 3 years.

The outrage at not being able to repair a 4gm Airpod when compared to the complete disregard to wasting other resources, in my opinion, has a very dubious moral stance.

I get that the price paid is indicative of the engineering that went into the product and you feel it might be outrageous to pay that amount for 2x 4gm.

Any argument about repairability needs to be considered in the context of actual resources used to make the product, what the cost to humanity was when compared to what it will cost to repair the product, including the human cost.