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>Hotel regulations at least partially benefit me as a customer. Hotels are subject to health checks for example. Nobody would argue against sanitation in princ

>Hotel regulations at least partially benefit me as a customer. Hotels are subject to health checks for example. Nobody would argue against sanitation in principle, but I have never seen a health inspector at a hotel. OTOH, I have seen some nasty hotel rooms. > I also fail to see that adherence to health and fire code unfairly favors established players - quite to the contrary, those not adhering to the standards take an unfair advantage. Indeed, they do: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Four-firefighters-die-in-5-alarm-hotel-fire-in-4566085.php http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Four... I didn't say that AirBnB should be exempt from all regulation. I opined that the existing regulations are unfair, and that may be a reason that some entities want to disrupt that space. I would hope that some compromise can be reached that is effective at protecting people (unlike the current system), and isn't prohibitively expensive or onerous, or doesn't limit competition from non-traditional entities.

dbags 13y ago
> that is effective at protecting people (unlike the current system), and isn't prohibitively expensive or onerous, or doesn't limit competition from non-traditional entities. Christ, go fuck yourself you dishonest cunt. Commercial fire codes reduce death by fire in hotels. Higher security doors reduce invasions. Rotated keys reduce theft. Marketing regs reduce bait and switch. Food safety regs reduce food poisoning, and undisclosed contamination with allergens from room service. The list of effective laws is enormous. It's just ignored by ignorant, naive, and/or intellectually dishonest sacks like yourself. Please don't pretend that you're arguing honestly or that you care, even slightly, about finding a middle ground when you're spewing such obviously false bullshit claiming that the regs have zero efficacy at protecting people. I hope you get tricked into staying where I've stayed at AirBNB, because they were object lessons in just how awful and dishonest people are when there's zero regulation. Broken toilets, rooms advertised as having private bathrooms that didn't. AirBNB is a case study in the importance of regulation. Anybody who can't see that is willfully blind.

dbags 13y ago

> that is effective at protecting people (unlike the current system), and isn't prohibitively expensive or onerous, or doesn't limit competition from non-traditional entities. Christ, go fuck yourself you dishonest cunt. Commercial fire codes reduce death by fire in hotels. Higher security doors reduce invasions. Rotated keys reduce theft. Marketing regs reduce bait and switch. Food safety regs reduce food poisoning, and undisclosed contamination with allergens from room service. The list of effective laws is enormous. It's just ignored by ignorant, naive, and/or intellectually dishonest sacks like yourself. Please don't pretend that you're arguing honestly or that you care, even slightly, about finding a middle ground when you're spewing such obviously false bullshit claiming that the regs have zero efficacy at protecting people. I hope you get tricked into staying where I've stayed at AirBNB, because they were object lessons in just how awful and dishonest people are when there's zero regulation. Broken toilets, rooms advertised as having private bathrooms that didn't. AirBNB is a case study in the importance of regulation. Anybody who can't see that is willfully blind.