A Dubai brunch ended 24 dirhams short, and named the fallacy that caused it (rozumem.xyz)
A writer logged how a 'modernized' Dubai restaurant turned one brunch into admin: a lone QR menu six people scanned in turns, a meter app that interrupted the table with a two-minute warning, and a split-payment screen so muddy that 24 dirhams walked out unpaid.
The frame is Rory Sutherland's doorman fallacy: automating a job's visible task while deleting its invisible value. The sharpest pushback came from a former big-tech engineer who lived in a doorman building for a decade and calls doormen a luxury, not a fallacy.
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