You're telling me that benefitting 33,000 people by $125 isn't worth $1.25m? If we started paying founders based on per-customer benefits, it gets ugly, fast.

Amazingly, people here seem to think it's a grievance that gets paid, not the execution of the idea. In America, grievances are more common than good ideas -- everybody has them. And in many cases, no matter how good the grievance, it takes real work to get the wronging party to pay any significant amount.

That's not to say the class action system can't be abused, but class actions aren't abusive by nature.