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> Using AirBNB (or equivalent service) saved me well over $1500 for the trip - we would have needed three hotel rooms but rented a house instead. Travel and en

by gist 9y ago

> Using AirBNB (or equivalent service) saved me well over $1500 for the trip - we would have needed three hotel rooms but rented a house instead. Travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities. It doesn't outweigh the negative impact of airbnb. > As an added bonus, instead of all that money going to a large corporation, it will go to an individual. Why in the world does that matter at all? Are you saying that you have not received any upside from interacting over the years with 'a large corporation'? And that they have no value? Or that you think it just makes you a better person because your money went to an individual as if you have just donated to a person or charity in need?

quuquuquu 9y ago
>re: travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities neither are steak, chicken, lobster, toilet paper, SUVs, TVs, rockets to space, streaming movies, fireworks... and yet the production and consumption of these things carry personal and societal risks. who are we to judge, unfortunately? >re: have not received any value from a large corporation? I think what the poster is saying there is that he receives value from smaller individual landlords and from large corporations- -but that they would prefer if it went to individual landlords because they might be a better steward to the community than a corporation
- realityking 9y ago
  > toilet paper I'd like to dispute that one. Hygiene is certainly one of life's necessities if we want to share this planet with 7 billion other people.
  - quuquuquu 9y ago
    Haha yeah I agree too, but there are a lot of ways to clean yourself adequately and safely without specifically using toilet paper. Some ways that come to mind include pressurized water, sanitary wipes, other ways that could result in a physical and bacterial clean etc Western toilet paper is just but one way to achieve hygiene and could therefore be considered replaceable by something else
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DanBC 9y ago
> Travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities. They're in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. > > Article 13. > > (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. > > (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. > > Article 24. > > Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. > > Article 27. > (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. > (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

by gist 9y ago

quuquuquu 9y ago

>re: travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities neither are steak, chicken, lobster, toilet paper, SUVs, TVs, rockets to space, streaming movies, fireworks... and yet the production and consumption of these things carry personal and societal risks. who are we to judge, unfortunately? >re: have not received any value from a large corporation? I think what the poster is saying there is that he receives value from smaller individual landlords and from large corporations- -but that they would prefer if it went to individual landlords because they might be a better steward to the community than a corporation

realityking 9y ago
> toilet paper I'd like to dispute that one. Hygiene is certainly one of life's necessities if we want to share this planet with 7 billion other people.
- quuquuquu 9y ago
  Haha yeah I agree too, but there are a lot of ways to clean yourself adequately and safely without specifically using toilet paper. Some ways that come to mind include pressurized water, sanitary wipes, other ways that could result in a physical and bacterial clean etc Western toilet paper is just but one way to achieve hygiene and could therefore be considered replaceable by something else

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DanBC 9y ago

> Travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities. They're in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. > > Article 13. > > (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. > > (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. > > Article 24. > > Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. > > Article 27. > (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. > (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.