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I've lived with crap neighbors. Not in an AirBNB setting. But I've read more than enough about rotating, crap AirBNB neighbors to have more than a bit of symp
by pasbesoin 10y ago
I've lived with crap neighbors. Not in an AirBNB setting. But I've read more than enough about rotating, crap AirBNB neighbors to have more than a bit of sympathy towards the anti-AirBNB side.
Zoning and regulations exist for good reasons, built up over decades.
AirBNB and its like "break" the paradigm by, in "crowdsourced" fashion, sort of "flash-mob" overwhelming the existing system.
Yeah, those existing systems may have some faults and inefficiencies. But I am not for throwing them out, wholesale.
Nor for neighbors shitting all over their neighbors for the sake of their own profit.
Like Uber with its discrimination and "dumping" via investor dollar subsidized rides. These "sharing" businesses have turned into parasites arbitraging the limited resources to enforce existing law and regulation.
Unfortunately, more and more people believe that "government is bad", so, instead of digging in to fix and improve what we have, it's left to the crooks to break the paradigm.
Again, as someone who's suffered under bad neighbors, repeatedly, I say... well, a pox on your house.
(Not to mention our return to piecework labor with no benefits and no insurance.)