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Good things: - Makes visiting the city cheaper - Increases tourism - Enriches land-owners Bad things: - Skirts consumer protection laws - Makes it harder
by khedoros1 10y ago
Good things:
- Makes visiting the city cheaper
- Increases tourism
- Enriches land-owners
Bad things:
- Skirts consumer protection laws
- Makes it harder for law-abiding hotels to survive in that situation
- Reduces inventory of rental units on the market, driving up local prices in an already expensive place
- People in a "hotel room" are more likely to misbehave than someone that actually intends to live somewhere
It's not wrong just because it's illegal, it's wrong because it causes various problems in the city and for the people that live there.
- orblivion 10y agoIf it's not wrong for being illegal, I wouldn't argue that law abiding hotels especially deserve to stay in business.
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoYeah. It's like the argument "because it's against the law, it's fundamentally bad." Just take a look at dealership laws. Do you really think those laws are there to protect consumers? Or do they merely protect the incumbents which helped push for the laws? And now we're forced to buy used cars from sleazy middlemen because they have a legislated monopoly. Good thing those laws are there to protect us!