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Good. Another scam american corporation folding on first legislation to benefit common people.
by cyberpsybin 5y ago
Good. Another scam american corporation folding on first legislation to benefit common people.
- sumedh 5y agoWhat makes it a scam?
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoProviding a service without following the laws. In this case, a hotel booking site without hotels. It's like uber, a taxi service without drivers/cars.
- sumedh 5y ago> In this case, a hotel booking site without hotels. It did not start out as a hotel booking service though.
- jacquesm 5y agoHow it started out is irrelevant, how it is today is what matters.
- dorchadas 5y agoAnd didn't AirBnB start out in dubious circumstances too? I seem to recall reading something about it, but can't find it now.
- jacquesm 5y agohttps://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-dollar-company/ https://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-d...
- sumedh 5y agoSometimes you need to break some laws to make progress that does not make it a scam. Sometimes the existing laws hurt consumers breaking such laws is good not bad.
- Macha 5y agoThis kind of thinking is less well received in Europe, which is why e.g. so many cities banned uber and only let them back in as a registered taxi app to contact registered taxi drivers charging regulated taxi prices, while a lot of US cities turned a blind eye. Those same regulations also kept a higher floor of taxi quality, which helped avoid the stereotype that exists in the US of "regular taxis are always dirty and late", so there wasn't consumer outcry for their return like US cities which had tried banning them.
- unionpivo 5y agoExpect if I did it I would have huge penalties and real possibility of jail time for repeat offences But because its USA megacorp it takes years before it gets slap on a wrist.