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Good. Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats. Platforms like AirBnB only put oil in the fire when it comes to housing crises.
by deutschepost 2y ago
Good. Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats.
Platforms like AirBnB only put oil in the fire when it comes to housing crises.
- popcalc 2y agoAlternatively, the population practicing birth control could solve the crisis. Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home :)
- utensil4778 2y ago"Poor people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, that will fix our problems"
- popcalc 2y agoYou're allowed to ruin your children's lives, no doubt about that.
- twixfel 2y agoBetter to be alive, though, than simply never born in order to protect airbnb, as you would prefer.
- dindobre 2y agoIt's not even poor people, in some "advanced economies" we're getting to a point where income means very little, and inheriting means a lot. I've only seen such a lack of empathy in teenagers or silver spoons.
- lostlogin 2y agoWho do you think is going to do the work every facet of your life requires?
- popcalc 2y agoGo to Kuwait, everyone, even commoners host their maids and cooks in their main residences. Maybe we'll see a mainstream return to these arrangements in the States.
- phyllistine 2y agoThat is a worse system, and this public policy change is preferable to poor people having to be live in workers.
- eesmith 2y agoYour "everyone" does not seem to include the maids and cooks, almost as if you consider them nobodies.
- lostlogin 2y agoModern slavery comes to mind.
- elmomle 2y ago> Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home That isn't how human beings work, though, and it never has been. I tend to suspect that a person saying something like this has few if any deep relationships with people who cannot afford to own homes, because the statement shows no compassion for their experience.
- billfor 2y agoWe should at least stop treating population growth as an economic necessity (mostly because of corporations and the need to service a debt bubble). Where it ends up in the extreme case is people living on top of each other.
- popcalc 2y agoThe end result will be mass, society-wide indentured servitude. I say give it one century without any major paradigm shift (e.g. Industrial Revolution/geopolitical unrest).
- HDThoreaun 2y agoHotels suck. I want a hotel with no staff. Thats airbnb
- popcalc 2y ago[deleted]
- mattlondon 2y agoIs renting from the landlord precisely what the problem is? Middleman or not, it is an apartment that a normal local person can't use.
- popcalc 2y agoYou can't stop the free market. Once it's out of the bag, given a long enough time-frame without volatility (technological innovation/political turbulence/labor/etc.) it always returns to feudalism. Sand aggregates into the form of a pyramid in the absence of winds. So do societies.
- Nasrudith 2y agoFor the love of god, please learn what feudalism actually is. It isn't someone renting out land it is a government structured via a system of sworn allegiances.
- ebiester 2y agoThey knew. They didn't care. It ended up being a good deal for both groups.
- enraged_camel 2y agoWell, you can always sleep in a tent!
- switch007 2y agoWell, hotels barely have any staff these days, thanks to cost cutting ;)
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoIt's interesting hotels that feel like an AirBnB don't really exist. Even though the professional AirBnB hosts are doing all the functions that hotels do. Why not the reverse.
- switch007 2y agoAparthotels are fairly common. Then you gave the budget hotels with skeleton staff and almost no common areas and facilities What do you mean exactly by "feels like an Airbnb"?
- jfim 2y agoWhat do you mean by a hotel that feels like an Airbnb? If you want to stay at a place that has a kitchen, and multiple bedrooms, there are suite hotels (eg. Homewood suites) and extended stay hotels. If you want someone to host you, then a bed and breakfast is another type of accommodation.
- jupp0r 2y ago1. An actual kitchen that's good for cooking complex meals. This is great for family trips on holidays. 2. 3+ bedrooms. Good luck finding that in Hotels. 3. Things like private hot tubs or pools, BBQ in the backyard, etc are almost unheard of in hotels. 4. Laundry machines.
- Jaecen 2y agoIt's difficult to quantify. Perhaps it's something as intangible as a space optimized for _living_ (like an apartment) as opposed to a space optimized for _profit_ (like a hotel). Whatever the case, despite the existence of the options you list, Airbnb's are still popular. There's clearly some significant differentiator between them and an Airbnb.
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoIt's definitely the vibe. A lot of it is how the space is decorated. The random assortment of furniture and other stuff in an AirBnB contributes quite a lot to the atmosphere people are looking for. But there is a psychology to it that is, as you say, hard to pin dow. A hotel that has a random assortment of plates and cutlery in the kitchen (like my last AirBnB did) would feel cheap and tacky. The AirBnB didn't.
- mattrighetti 2y ago> Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats. What if we let people decide what they should/n't do with their own property instead?
- dakiol 2y agoThat’s not how it works. There are already some laws that don’t allow owners to do certain things in/with their property (for example, you cannot just convert your flat into a disco for obvious reasons).
- stfp 2y agoWell the people are deciding what they want to do with their own city. Individualism has its limits.
- thinkingtoilet 2y agoBecause we're adults that realize garbage dumps shouldn't be next to schools. And sometimes as society we make decisions that are good for the majority of people. I'm sure you'd love it if someone poisoned your ground water, but they did it by burying toxic materials on their property.
- mattrighetti 2y agoWhen Airbnb landlords won't rent to locals at all because it's not convenient enough for them do so what will you do for the good of the majority of the people? Forcefully seize their apartment because people need it?
- lnrd 2y agoThat's very hyperbolized. It's still convenient to them, just less profitable. If they have mortgages less profit is better than no profit in all scenarios. I knew an Airbnb host in Italy, he shared with me that by renting to tourist compared to the normal market prices to locals he would make 3 times more. It's a no brainer, but he would gladly accept 1/3 of that if the alternative is 0 (and he did during the pandemic when tourism stopped).
- isaacremuant 2y agoLol. They foreigners are buying homes like mad because there's no protection. This is a distraction for an easy target. It won't help and it will make the quality of hotels worse. It will also have a lot of under the table deals. But hey, instead of fixing the real problems, it's easy to attack things some people don't use. They do the same to electric bikes and scooters. Ban ban ban! Things will surely improve!
- zrn900 2y ago> Lol. They foreigners are buying homes like mad because there's no protection Yes and its a major problem. Some locations are already acting out. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/portugal-ends-golden-visas-curtails-airbnb-rentals-address-housing-crisis-2023-02-16 https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/portugal-ends-golden-... > This is a distraction for an easy target. It won't help and it will make the quality of hotels worse. Its not a distraction - its just a start. And hotel quality is still what it was before Airbnb and it will stay like that after airbnb goes away. The standards that national and international tourism institutions apply to the hotels has not changed one iota because of airbnb. > But hey, instead of fixing the real problems This is the real problem. https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-up-with-mass-tourism-barcelona-locals-say-039tourists-go-home039 https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-u...
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