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Don'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 ex
by nostromo 11y ago
Don'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.