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Spoiler: he didn't actually kill the restaurant. He made it really popular, and it shut down for unrelated reasons.

Unless they're already too busy, 99% of small business owners would love to have this "problem" of huge lines out their door.

This reads as yet manifestation of the idea that because I'm in a place or I found something or I live somewhere, all the people who came after me are undeserving filth who are going to "ruin it". Same idea as anti-transplant, anti-foreigner, anti-gentrification, anti-tourist, anti-development, etc. I got here on this date, so that's a reasonable cut off for who "deserves" to be here.

As someone else in this thread put it: you're not in the traffic jam, you are the traffic jam.



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