Hacker News Reader

Comment by socrates1998 | Hacker News Reader

socrates1998

The backlash is hilarious.

People get outraged over nothing.

The hypocrisy is ridiculous. Instead of getting upset at how restaurants treat their workers, they get mad at some random guy who makes a few reservations at a few restaurants.

He is taking a bad system and trying to make it better.

Restaurants screw people over all the time, managers and owners take advantage of minimum wage and our tipping culture to make sure almost everyone who works at the restaurant are close to or under the poverty line.

You know why people get outraged? Because it is easy and they don't really have to do anything.

View on HN

OR people are frustrated that so many douchenozzles have had their rent-seeking ("making it better") institutionalized that the opportunity to set this jackanapes's minor brain fart on fire and watch it burn is too wonderful to pass up.

Is it douchey? Yes, but I don't get how people act like they care about this guy and his very minor website.

Everyone wants to feel like they are a good person, so they put their heads in the sand for the big stuff like racism and wealth inequality, but they get "outraged" for this guy and his simple stupid website.

The phrase you are looking for is making it worse. What is better about his impact on the system? He's taking something that had no middleman before and setting himself up as one. Something that was free but no longer is. He's a leech on restaurants and is hurting their business, and charging customers where once they got things for free.

Now, if the world was full of guys like this, and the restaurant industry was choked with middlemen, and then he went and made a system where the customer could go right to the restaurant for their free reservation, that would be making things better. What this guy has done benefits no one but him.

Seems like your comment got downvoted, which is a shame because it was one of the few comments that spoke to the heart of the matter. Ignore all the other real injustices around the restaurant business, but go nuts over a small guy and his crap website.

I would say however that his attempt at making the system better is not really doing that. He does come off as a lowly scalper with his implementation.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com