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Airbnb's latest attempt to appease hosts and customers amid a tumultuous year was met with a searing backlash on social media.
The online vacation rental marketplace, headquartered in San Francisco, initiated a feature this week offering customers the chance to donate money and "kindness cards" to hosts.
"Today we're introducing a new way to connect with your favorite hosts. Now you can create personalized kindness cards that make it easy to send a message of appreciation or encouragement, with the option to add a contribution. We hope these cards will make hosts smile, and bring a little joy your way," a message from the company to customers read.
"Airbnb has lost its f---ing head, why would I donate to my host? I can't even afford one house." Twitter user olenskae fumed.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:11PM (11 children)
If they have such good intentions, perhaps they could offer postcards and rebates to the hosts themselves.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:44PM (10 children)
AirBnB is a tax and other regulations avoidance platform, nothing more. If you use it, you're putting legitimate hostels and renters out of business.
(Note, this statement is not made because I have skin in the game, this is an independent appraisal from a safe distance.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 4, Informative) by edIII on Sunday July 19 2020, @08:35PM (1 child)
My independent appraisal is to use a lot of curry, fenugreek, coriander, and pepper when eating the rich. For best results, slow cook at 240 degrees for 8 hours :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @02:08AM
Try all you want, they simply aren't fit to eat.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @01:43AM (4 children)
Why is that supposed to be a bad thing? Legitimacy is not that valuable to us, particularly when it is purchased.
(Score: 4, Touché) by aristarchus on Monday July 20 2020, @03:08AM (3 children)
Khallow? Seriously? Is this like your AirBnBackhoe, where you tried to charge a fee for clean sheets and towels? Externalities, Dude! Fair playing field for functional economic competition. If someone goes black market, it destroys the efficiency of capitalism, and we might have all go socialist, man!!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @03:34AM (2 children)
"Legitimacy" is one of the easy ways to tilt that playing field.
(Score: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday July 20 2020, @10:10AM (1 child)
You scammer, khallow! I wish I never rented a backhoe from you, after I found out what a crooked business person you truly are. Never do business with Republicans, that is my new motto. Oh, and keep the ferked deposit, it was all counterfeit bills, anyway.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 20 2020, @11:09AM
You don't say, magister... Really? TMB's money are counterfeit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @02:41AM (2 children)
"If you use it, you're putting legitimate hostels and renters out of business."
I have no sympathy for the hotels. They are not legitimate and don't deserve any special treatment in the form of having their competition eliminated. To the extent that you want to get rid Airbnb because they are competition this is the exact reason why we should not get rid of them. Competition is good.
Kinda like the fact that big media hates Uber and Lyft because they compete with the taxi cab industry and their illegitimate medallion monopolies. The medallion monopolies should be abolished and the reason we should keep Uber and Lyft around is exactly to provide fair competition.
Many of those hotels are predatory. They use local government to lobby in ways that limit competition. If a business wants to open up their own local in house lounging place for their traveling employees to save money, one that's cleaner and more luxurious than the local hotels/motels, the hotels will lobby the local government to make them go away and to make sure it doesn't happen.
Sorry, I have zero sympathy for the hotels. Just like I have zero sympathy for the taxi cab industry that obtains medallions to limit competition in ways that hurt the drivers and the customers. They aren't special and should be forced to compete like anyone else.
I recognize that most of the hatred towards Uber and Lyft that I see in the headlines is really done by those that support the medallion monopolies and have the underlying agenda harming both the consumers and the taxi-cab drivers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @04:00AM (1 child)
> The medallion monopolies should be abolished and the reason we should keep Uber and Lyft around is exactly to provide fair competition.
I agree that medallions have turned into a corrupt system, perhaps more so in some cities than others. However, if you think Uber and Lyft provide fair competition, I have a bridge to sell you. Both are extremely well funded by VCs (and other deep pockets) and are prepared to make a loss until such time that the earlier system of taxi cabs has been put out of business. At which point Uber and Lyft prices will increase due to their new monopoly.
While Uber and Lyft represent themselves as hip "ride sharing" companies, they are in reality normal capitalists that actually want to be monopolists.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 21 2020, @10:56PM
I think the coming taxi genocide is quite a fair use of VC money.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:18PM (29 children)
The host is running a business (a business that probably breaks zoning regulations, but I digress), and he sets the price for his good. You agree to it, and you pay him. Why the fuck should I shower him with MORE money? You want to be nice: leave the place fairly clean when you leave... although he will in all likelihood have a maid service clean the place after you leave, and of course you wil have paid for it as part of your rental (house "sharing"?) fee.
It's as if there is a whole generation of people who do not understand the basics of how an economy works.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:36PM (4 children)
Precisely, tipping maids and employees is bad enough, why tip the business owner? For ages you never tipped the owner, you might top employees, but not the owner.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @11:37AM (3 children)
I never tip. I eat at restaurants with a collective agreement between workforce and employer.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @03:07PM (2 children)
My daughter is a server at a very high end restaurant. She is as non-racist as anyone can be but she admits there are only two type of black customers. Most are those who will spend hundreds of dollars and tip nothing and some who will overtip because they know the stereotype is all too often accurate. Unfortunately the overtippers are too few to balance the non-tippers. There are a also a small number that will try anything to get the manager to give them their meals free. They are the worst customers. Last week it happened again but her co-worker drew short straw with that group and left reduced to tears. They got their meals comped of course and after the group left, a white customer who witnessed the whole thing handed her $100. She has told me many of these stories and there is always a predictable common thread.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @08:16PM
Predictable. -1 Uncomfortable truth.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @10:12PM
The only reason there is a predictable common thread due to your confirmation bias.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:14PM
Why? Because AirBnb hopes "these cards will make hosts smile, and bring a little joy your way".
The real question is why are you such a communist America hater?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:49PM (21 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @02:46AM (8 children)
There is absolutely nothing legitimate about taxi cab medallion monopolies.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday July 20 2020, @08:16AM (5 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 21 2020, @11:00PM (4 children)
One way to change the law is to drive the businesses supporting the law out of business via the allegedly illegal competition. You don't eliminate political merchants by rewarding them. You do it by driving them into bankruptcy.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:02AM (3 children)
Have you never stopped to consider why so many people think you're a loon?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 22 2020, @06:11PM (2 children)
What is there to consider? I realize already that there are people who disagree with me. And some of them are incapable of understanding that.
I think there would a whole lot less concern over the rule of law, if Uber and Airbnb were doing stuff that was pro-Taxi cartel and pro-labor. Further, our rule of law has provided numerous constraints on democracies no matter which ones you consider. And a big, universal constraint is that one's rights don't disappear just because one is on the wrong side of a bureaucratic tussle.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 22 2020, @11:24PM
Fixed.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday July 24 2020, @09:29AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:41AM (1 child)
You're ignoring history. They were created due to corruption of the taxi companies competing with each other. They were successful in reducing crime, blackmail, kidnappings, assignations, and reducing roaming bands of unoccupied taxis (those older companies operated like gangs). Sure the medallions were slowly corrupted and need to be fixed, but simply dropping them invites all the old problems to come back and we've already seen some of that. Uber making fake pickup requests to other companies, discriminating against which people they pick up (them creating ghost drivers and ignoring pickup requests from people they calculated were inspectors), varied rates, increased traffic, ignoring complaints, etc... Companies holding medallions are forced to meet the requirements for those medallions. If customers actually called into their cities to complain about abuses those companies would be held accountable or they lost the medallions (or you could vote someone in who would hold them accountable). Sure some of that has been corrupted, but services like Uber give you no resource. Further, if you complain too much you're the one who gets banned.
You're looking at all of the current cons of the medallions and ignoring all of the past pros. When you throw them out, you're throwing out all the pros as well.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 22 2020, @06:13PM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @10:41AM (11 children)
Ignoring that it is likely that parts of the "poor business" paid for those baroque regulatory systems in order to create cartels, why do you perceive said baroque regulatory systems as legitimate in the first place?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @03:31PM (1 child)
Because they were approved of and enforced by a government. In the sense you're using it legitimacy can simply be defined as conformance to rules or laws. Unless you prefer anarchy, in which case there is never any such thing as legitimate. And even as captured as it is there are good public interest reasons why the supply of street-hirable drivers should be regulated and limited.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:25AM
That's really flimsy.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 21 2020, @10:46AM (8 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 21 2020, @12:05PM (7 children)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 21 2020, @05:01PM (6 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 21 2020, @10:52PM (5 children)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:00AM (4 children)
Because I'm not an anarchist.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 22 2020, @11:32PM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday July 24 2020, @09:25AM (2 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 24 2020, @01:05PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday July 24 2020, @02:21PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @11:27AM
Indeed. I imagine once you have answered why the tipping culture keeps growing, you'll have separated yourself quite a bit from that generation of people who do not understand the basics of how an economy works.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:43PM (1 child)
Company is irrelevant, they try to make themselves relevant, and it backfires. Happens all the time!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:00PM
SelfAwareWolves
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:44PM (6 children)
I wish my landlord would tip me a months rent or so every now and then ... I wonder why that never happens ...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday July 20 2020, @12:36AM (5 children)
Because you live in America.
Otherwise, at least today, you could negotiate a 20% rent discount in Australia [dailymail.co.uk] .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by looorg on Monday July 20 2020, @01:46AM (1 child)
How rude. I don't live in America.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 20 2020, @03:07AM
Then head to your relevant realestate site and see what are the going rents. You may have the surprise to be able to renegotiate your rent.
(do you expect the landlord to offer you a rent reduction from the goodness of his heart, without asking him to?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @10:46AM (2 children)
I hope "property advisor" Anna Porter will consider extending that advice to the US so that we'll be allowed to renegotiate rent as well. \sarc
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @10:58AM (1 child)
Did you move out of the company's town, khallow? Congrats for your regained independence.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @11:12AM
The "company town" already did two things in order to get people to live in Yellowstone during covid - get rid of rent altogether (it wasn't much in the first place) and have one person per room with bathroom. The renegotiation already happened.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:58PM (10 children)
Everyone is hit by the pandemic, your landlord too because they pay a mortgage.
The only one so far immune is mortgage lenders, Why can’t missed mortgage payments be automatically added to the mortgage for the duration of the pandemic?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:01PM
Because the duration will be forever, FOREEEVVVER!!!!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:21PM (6 children)
Some banks are doing that. Some are just writing it off. Some are 'all in' on lending to people so they can buy houses. So it varies. Not all banks are the same.
What most people do not realize is the banks have obligations too. To their shareholders, their bond holders, the Fed, their account holders, etc.
Remember this is a system. Think of it as if you yonked out 1 random line of code in the middle of some program. While most of the program might or might not work it probably will cause nasty side effects.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:06PM (5 children)
Fuck the rich. All US banks made their money through slavery and the products of slavery. All US banks should therefore donate half of their capital stock to Blacks to start small businesses like AirBnBs. #BLM #FTR
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Monday July 20 2020, @02:29AM (4 children)
Banks make their money via usury and the fractional reserve mechanism.
Most of us don't know it yet, but the banks already own nearly everything. And they did nothing more than issue debt then charge usury. Which now requires creation of yet more debt to pay the loan back.
Do the math. We are screwed.
I see only one way to reset the system, and it's been used since Biblical times.
We in the USA are favored by banks as having the US Dollar, the world's reserve currency, backed up by the US Military to settle disputes. Everyone else has to pay their bills, but in our case, to retain dominance of our military which the elite need to stave off the pitchforks, we simply "extend the debt ceiling", digging ourselves further and further into debt to a private international entity, which is free to shop around for the best pitchfork insurance.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @11:31AM (3 children)
Sorry, many private entities is not a single private entity. You also ignore the considerable fraction of debt owed to public entities like the governments of China and Japan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @01:27PM (2 children)
>> debt owed to public entities like the governments of China and Japan.
Debt that can be erased with a nuclear device is not real debt, and US has already demonstrated its willingness to use atomic weapons to defend its economic interests against the Yellow Peril.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:24AM
How about debt that can't be erased with a nuclear weapon? Nuclear weapons aren't magic in their ability to cancel contracts. There are tremendous consequences to their use up to and including the extinction of the US.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:28AM
There appears to be a "ruling elite" which has been with us since prehistoric time, which requires the threat of superior physical violence at the foundation of its leadership model. Appears to exist in all life. Also known as "pecking order".
Note how the same banking systems quickly took root firmly in the USA, with the US Dollar becoming the world reserve currency after WW2.
The ownership classes are totally dependent on military might to back up their pen. As you say, physical might cancels debt.
The US Military depends on the Fed, to extend, through our government, ever increasing debt onto the American populace. But then the Fed desperately needs the use of those weapons to keep all the debtors paying the usury. Or else, the debtors, who far outnumber them, will use guillotines to cancel the debt.
It's an inherently unstable system, chaotic, while staying within bounds. The existence of humanity is not at stake, but who gets saluted is. Those who are being saluted want to keep it that way. But they are apt to make ever increasing demands until the populace has had enough, and upsets the apple cart.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 20 2020, @11:11AM
Well, not quite immune, but for them there is the "too big to fail" medication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday July 20 2020, @08:40PM
free money, like free violence, is only for those at the top, not the bottom.
If you dont have to pay your mortgage for one month, it sounds like you dont have to pay it for all the months.
Capitalists take precedent very seriously.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:50PM (4 children)
Absurdity like this is a just probe how far the certain mind control technique over the commoners population already proceeded.
They surely expect a tiny percent only, but still is a good metric if they compare the effect in affected and unaffected regions.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Sunday July 19 2020, @08:24PM (2 children)
I think you're over-analyzing this. This sounds exactly like the stupid shit that my last company would do, and it was always the marketing people.
I would be willing to bet some idiot marketing person, who is perfectly isolated from the problems others are having in the economy right now, came up with this shit.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:09PM (1 child)
That's what marketing aspires to do - to control a mass of weak-minded people and make them buy what we want to sell.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @08:27AM
I see what you did there.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @11:18AM
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:06PM
Methinks the landlords would want to keep a low profile, lest neo-communist mobs appropriate their properties "for the BIPOC".
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:06PM
Next up, they'll ask you to send a card and contribution to AirBnB. And if you don't send an acceptably generous amount to help them through this hard time, then they'll cancel your next reservation without letting you know.
(Score: -1, Troll) by istartedi on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:11PM (7 children)
OMG! A web company has suggested that you might want to do something nice for somebody, regardless of their class. The horror! Quick, robin. To the Batmobile, now with Guillotine launcher. Sheesh!
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Nuke on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:19PM (3 children)
If I do something nice to anyone, it won't be to landlords, AirBnB, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. Mark Zucherberg, or anyone remotely resembling any of the above.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:23PM (2 children)
Not all landlords are 'rich'. Take for example my dad. He has 2 rentals. That is his entire income. It is how he helps pay for his cancer treatments. He does not even make much on them. Maybe 1k month total.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @12:10AM
As long as he pays his share of taxes, no problem.
But look up negative gearing in Australia. It's a rort, engineered by the 11% who actually use it to avoid paying taxes. Those landlords price the rest of us out of the market.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @03:15AM
Has he ever thought about cooking Meth, to pay off those nagging cancer treatment bills?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:23PM (2 children)
How much did AirBnB chip in for this tipping circle? As far as I can tell nothing. If they wanted to do something nice for their "hosts" then why don't they just cut their commission rates or start sending money to the "hosts"? Don't see that happening. I guess they did use some of their employees to make the graphics and update their service, I guess that was as far as they are willing to go.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:04PM
AirBnB loses too much money to be able to reduce their fees.
Apparently at one point they did make some profits, but not lately. Hopefully they will go bust and disappear.
I like your plan though. Maybe rapacious investment funds like Kleiner Perkins could send all their money directly to the hosts and cut out the middle man.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @11:24AM
Yep, it's free advertising. The cheapskates (like the above "olenskae") will grouse for a while raising the visibility of the Airbnb brand.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Adam on Sunday July 19 2020, @07:06PM (6 children)
It's not so different than donating to a local museum that currently isn't making ends meet, or tipping a delivery driver. Sure, I could use that money for me, but if one of them is providing a service that I want to see continue, and I know they aren't going to make it without a donation, some money now can preserve a service for the future that I want to continue using. Some folks, like me, still have the same income but don't have the entertainment expendetures - that money can go somewhere, and spending it preserving my entertainment future isn't unreasonable. Granted, AirBnB hosts are a little different, but if I was a repeat visitor somewhere and knew they were using the income to pay the mortgage, it might be worth making a contribution today to preserve the facility for my future. AirBnB, the company, enabling that, is fine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:02PM (2 children)
And that's exactly why I spend my money on hookers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @12:41AM
Congrats for supporting local businesses like that.
Are you still able to produce enough protein for a warm meal too?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @11:45AM
No blackjack?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:01PM (1 child)
And you, my little SJW friend, are exactly why our grandchildren will have to learn Chinese. Because they'll need it to get jobs cleaning Chinamen's toilets.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @12:14AM
Chinese will never catch on because no critical mass of foreigners can be bothered learning its writing system nor its tones.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Common Joe on Monday July 20 2020, @08:41AM
Completely disagree. Tipping is done way too much. Tell me the price, and then I'll decide whether I want to pay it or not.
This idea that waiters and waitresses (or delivery drivers) live on tips is awful. Suggesting another business (in this case, a AirBnB) go down that route is equally as awful.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday July 20 2020, @08:45PM (1 child)
Those are for landlords who are keeping homes vacant during an epidemic of homelessness.
So really airbnb is asking, on top of all the other reasons it is awful, for us to subsidize artificial scarcity.
Let that sink in, A SUBSIDY FOR ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY, MASKED AS CHARITY
Lest you forget:
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:56AM
Maintaining a house isn't free, especially when people can actively destroy it then bankrupt you for not fixing it fast enough.
Why are you asking people to give up their financial future and risk complete loss of everything they own when you're unwilling to do the same? How many times have you got out of your car at a stoplight and handed its keys to the homeless guy begging at the crosswalk? That's what you're asking people to do. You first.
We're also in an epidemic of poor nutritional food. Which food have you bypassed so others more needy than you can get theirs for free at your expense? You don't produce any food waste do you? You do? You're increasing food scarcity by buying more than you need while leaving less for others all while driving up prices and demand in your area. Thus other areas are deemed less profitable so they become nutritional deserts. Why don't you do your own part to fix things rather than complaining about others.
Though of course AirBnb is being a cheap asshole too, just like you. Blaming others rather than trying to fix the issues yourself. How many homeless people have you opened your house/apartment to?
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:48PM
A person who equates the health of a house and a person as the same, if not assigning the house, and an extra at that, more value.
Your other allegory does not line up.