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in order to protect one's neighbors from... what exactly? Their lives being disrupted. There are enough horror stories out there that you'd have to try very ha
by untog 11y ago
in order to protect one's neighbors from... what exactly?
Their lives being disrupted. There are enough horror stories out there that you'd have to try very hard to ignore them - short term renters simply do not care about community and shared spaces in the same way that long term residents do.
You living with a same-sex partner has absolutely no effect on my life. You renting out your apartment to tourists who are loud, disruptive and trash common property does. And yes, that behaviour is already illegal but it's incredibly difficult to secure any kind of prosecution for it.
I'm not suggesting that we should ban AirBnb here, but I think "it's all just property rights" is also a dramatic oversimplification in the opposite direction.
- nostromo 11y agoDon't be motivated by horror stories. Airbnb has hosted over 40 million people. More people than the population of California. I'm sure there are some bad experiences on Airbnb (and in California, where there are multiple murders every day) but are they statistically significant?
- wavefunction 11y agoThe horror stories are actually what is important in the face of 40 million people staying in various places. Big numbers are big numbers and nothing especially interesting in-and-of-themselves. That you would so callously discount the discomfort people feel in their own homes due to the profit motive of their neighbors is what should be emphasized as the negative aspect of what AirBnB enables. You care about statistical significance and not the human aspect and I simply can't respect that sort of inhuman profit-loss calculation.