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I feel this is entirely justified. There are a lot of people on HN who are very much in favour of a minimum of regulation in these sorts of markets, but the Dut
by sjmulder 14y ago
I feel this is entirely justified. There are a lot of people on HN who are very much in favour of a minimum of regulation in these sorts of markets, but the Dutch government has democratically opted to put rules into place for, amongst other things, hotels and taxi services.
It’s great that business like Airbnb and Uber are looking to disrupt their respective markets but that doesn’t make them exempt from the laws that everyone else has to follow.
- camus 14y agoI totally agree , in case of an accident/wrong doing/Whatever ,without a proper license and a pro insurance, if you are the "client" : screwed, if you are the "landlord" : screwed. The only winner is airbnb. It would be like saying one can open a restaurant because one has a kitchen ... one just cant.