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It's time to stop and think about where the cyber-Libertarian line of argument is taking us. On the one side, AirBnB's rampant violation of lodging and zoning
by URSpider94 10y ago
It's time to stop and think about where the cyber-Libertarian line of argument is taking us.
On the one side, AirBnB's rampant violation of lodging and zoning regulations should be disregarded because it's the will of the people, and because hotels are just abusing their government-granted monopoly on mini soaps and pay-per-view porn.
Now people are arguing that, because AirBnB is only serving as a matchmaking service for millions of individual homeowners, not only is it hard to prevent discrimination, but they shouldn't even try.
Assuming the free market works as it usually does, we are heading for a future where we replace millions of hotel beds that are guaranteed to serve everyone equally with millions of AirBnB beds hosted by proprietors free to discriminate against anybody and everybody. How is that progress?