> But is that necessarily true? IIUC, class-action participants typically get screwed over because the class attorneys negotiate a settlement that optimizes the

> But is that necessarily true? IIUC, class-action participants typically get screwed over because the class attorneys negotiate a settlement that optimizes their profit. The thing with class-action lawsuits is that commonly the members haven't individually suffered a significant amount of harm - it's small enough that class-members could never justify suing on their own. With a class-action lawsuit the members aren't going to get any more than they would otherwise, it just makes it cheap enough to justifying suing at all - and by doing that, gives an avenue to ensure companies can't just get away with that kind of thing for free.