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airbnb: people wanting cheap hotel rooms equates to disregarding hotel zoning laws uber: people wanting on-demand taxi service equates to disregarding taxi med

airbnb: people wanting cheap hotel rooms equates to disregarding hotel zoning laws uber: people wanting on-demand taxi service equates to disregarding taxi medalian laws local.menu: people wanting curry next door equates to disregarding "selling" food laws. i.e. once people start using the new things that break laws and love them, they collectively go, f those laws they were dumb.

stephenr 11y ago
> once people start using the new things that break laws and love them, they collectively go, f those laws they were dumb. People collectively say a lot of things, that doesn't make them true or accurate. Americans in particular seem to have an obsession with "fuck regulations, free market ftw" - plenty of other countries regulate things that make sense, without making things overly burdensome. Go ask anyone who had a mortgage and/or pension fund in 2008 how that free market thing turned out for them. > people wanting curry next door I don't know what your obsession with curry is specifically, but if it's next door, they're your neighbour. Just ask them if you can have some fucking curry.
- andrewfromx 11y ago
  you have a point about not all regulations are bad. But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. s/curry/anyfood Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates.
  - stephenr 11y ago
    > But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. This one is Airbnb bad if you assume that 1 out of every 5 Airbnb rentals is being used to (take your pick) shoot porn; murder and cut up the bodies of people (to later be fed to pigs); arrange a reboot of the Bumfights video series; run a 24-hour needle swapping joint; etc > Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates. Exactly. The first one is a social interaction. The second is a business, and that's my whole point.

stephenr 11y ago

> once people start using the new things that break laws and love them, they collectively go, f those laws they were dumb. People collectively say a lot of things, that doesn't make them true or accurate. Americans in particular seem to have an obsession with "fuck regulations, free market ftw" - plenty of other countries regulate things that make sense, without making things overly burdensome. Go ask anyone who had a mortgage and/or pension fund in 2008 how that free market thing turned out for them. > people wanting curry next door I don't know what your obsession with curry is specifically, but if it's next door, they're your neighbour. Just ask them if you can have some fucking curry.

andrewfromx 11y ago
you have a point about not all regulations are bad. But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. s/curry/anyfood Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates.
- stephenr 11y ago
  > But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. This one is Airbnb bad if you assume that 1 out of every 5 Airbnb rentals is being used to (take your pick) shoot porn; murder and cut up the bodies of people (to later be fed to pigs); arrange a reboot of the Bumfights video series; run a 24-hour needle swapping joint; etc > Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates. Exactly. The first one is a social interaction. The second is a business, and that's my whole point.