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Their inability to stop users from gaming their systems is a design problem they can solve by changing incentives and data policies. Their users' shadiness shou
by unlinked_dll 7y ago
Their inability to stop users from gaming their systems is a design problem they can solve by changing incentives and data policies. Their users' shadiness shouldn't reflect on the company's shadiness.
If you want to talk about the ethical black hole of AirBnb, look at how much money they spend on litigation agains the municipalities whose laws they flagrantly ignore to make some more money, rather than accepting responsibility for the negative externalities their business model has created. And rather than just play by the rules, they light their money on fire trying to "disrupt" cities where people can barely afford rents as it is.
Like I don't know how you AirBNB engineers can live with yourselves. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, knowing that all the RVs on the side of the road where working people sleep because they can't afford rent would be partially my fault. It's not like you can't make good money elsewhere.
- newguy1234 7y agoIt can also be solved by going after the shady hosts for fraud. Those hosts know what they are doing and it is illegal.