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The thing that troubles me the most about AirBNB is the general feeling I get from them that they feel concerns about their social impact are simply not worth a
by JamisonM 11y ago
The thing that troubles me the most about AirBNB is the general feeling I get from them that they feel concerns about their social impact are simply not worth addressing. Not just disagreeing about the degree to which the things you cited might be problems but being dismissive about the whole idea that there may be any problems at all.
- seiji 11y agofeel concerns about their social impact are simply not worth addressing. Welcome to VC land. The game is: collect everybody else's money and resources for yourself at any cost. It's even easier when laws and regulations are either toothless or only get applied across 8 to 16 year time periods, so you can flaunt them with no repercussions.
- Kalium 11y agoAfter spending some time dealing with social impact concern activists, I've personally found that it's something of a bottomless pit. No concern is too small, every concern is hugely important, no concern is irrelevant, everything needs immediate addressing with all the money, every concern is your immediate direct personal problem, etc. So it's easier to not bother at all and catch flak than it is to do an "insufficient" amount of addressing concerns and get the same amount of flak from the same people.