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That's misdirection. 87% of hosts, sure, but what percentage of rentals? Does it matter if there are a lot of accounts that only list a few days a year? Notice
by ric2b 7y ago
That's misdirection. 87% of hosts, sure, but what percentage of rentals? Does it matter if there are a lot of accounts that only list a few days a year?
Notice that 2/3 of rentals are for entire apartments, the hosts that share their own home clearly can't do that very often.
- vinay427 7y agoI agree. I'm curious why you chose to reply to my comment with this complaint when I was directly responding to the claim, which you quite reasonably view to be "misdirection," in the parent comment.
- mrow84 7y agofrobozz wrote: > Most AirBnB hosts and Uber drivers are not just occasionally letting spare space in their homes you replied: > I don't believe this is true for Airbnb, both anecdotally and from Airbnb's own statement about NYC and provided as evidence: > "87 percent of Airbnb hosts in New York share only the home in which they live." ric2b replied: > That's misdirection. 87% of hosts, sure, but what percentage of rentals? My reading is that ric2b's was implying that whilst 87% of _hosts_ might be sharing their own home, if you were to look at rentals then there would be a different picture, presumably on the basis that the other 13% are "sharing" multiple properties. ric2b's accusation of misdirection was aimed at your 87% claim, because, whilst it was technically accurate (unlike what frobozz said), it "misdirects" from the more important picture, which is that, to quote frobozz opening sentiment: > Calling it "sharing economy" is doublespeak. That being the case for aforementioned reasons.