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airbnb, doordash, airbnb, facebook - did those things, respectively, with plenty of hard evidence (does anyone still remember cambridge analytica)
by jaggederest 2y ago
airbnb, doordash, airbnb, facebook - did those things, respectively, with plenty of hard evidence (does anyone still remember cambridge analytica)
- Spivak 2y agoYou have to stretch to get even one of those claims to be true. Has DoorDash put some restaurants out of business, probably. Have they put restaurants out of business, absolutely not. Has Airbnb raised home prices, yes by around ~1%. Have they destroyed the dream of home ownership, lol no. We're talking about ~$5k on the loan which isn't making or breaking anyone. And claims on destroying communities are dubious because they're just not that dense in places where people actually live. Has Facebook increased political polarization and sent people down the right-wing pipeline, yep. Would this have happened anyway with a constellation of smaller social media sites, it already has.
- rKarpinski 2y agoOk let's look at "destroying the dream of homeownership" since that the most objective. Homeownership rates are almost 66% now in 2024 [1], which is the highest it's been since 2011 [2]. [1] https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statistics/?tpt=a https://www.bankrate.com/homeownership/home-ownership-statis... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_St...