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Many other commenters imply that since people would flee the platform if they couldn't discriminate, that AirBnB shouldn't have to deal with the problem. It's t
by gmarx 10y ago
Many other commenters imply that since people would flee the platform if they couldn't discriminate, that AirBnB shouldn't have to deal with the problem. It's the opposite. AirBnB is required to deal with the problem. Their challenge is to make it look like they are dealing with the problem (e.g. hire Eric Holder) while not actually dealing with it in any substantive way.
Lots of these new companies have as part of their secret sauce the hiding of racial discrimination and avoiding regulations and fees that their old style competitors can't. once/if the govt cracks down a lot of these valuations must be reimagined
- aikah 10y agoWow, you're right : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/technology/airbnb-hires-ex-attorney-general-eric-holder-to-advise-on-anti-bias-policy.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/technology/airbnb-hires-ex... It's like these corporations hiring diversity officers who won't fix anything in their discriminatory hiring process. Pure PR.
- saiya-jin 10y agoactually this doesn't mean anything - hiring a black person for anti-discriminatory position seems exactly like PR. Hey look, we hired him, we cannot possibly be discriminative, right? and nobody was talking about airbnb's hiring process here, WTF?