- Visikde ( @Visikde@beehaw.org ) 35•9 months ago
AirBNb, uber, lyft are all designed to circumvent existing laws by setting up parallel systems. The companies set themselves up to be the gatekeepers, instead of existing regulatory systems. The enshittification is predictable.
The hardest thing in governance is:
Comprehensively reform a system in place while using it… - intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 34•9 months ago
AirBnB was supposed to save capitalism
Some people will just say anything
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) 2•9 months ago
“No bro you don’t get it, man, this lets people with multiple properties get more money out of them instead of those pesky hotels with their employees and regulations, man”
- pelotron ( @pelotron@midwest.social ) English20•9 months ago
My entire family has switched back to hotels with no regrets. We’ve all separately had bad experiences with Airbnb and realized hotels would never get away with that shit.
Also, unmentioned in the article is the topic of how Airbnb has contributed to the destruction of the single family home ownership market.
- its_me_xiphos ( @its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months ago
Real BnBs all the way. Regulated, no bullshit fees, actual hosts and other guests to meet and talk to over breakfast. Unique and lovely.
As Ron Swanson would say,
"Dear AirBnB,
Be a Bed and Breakfast, or be nothing."
Ron Swanson --Its_Me_Xiphos
- Doc Avid Mornington ( @docAvid@midwest.social ) English1•9 months ago
I mean, Ron Swanson wouldn’t approve of the regulation, though.
- its_me_xiphos ( @its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ) 1•9 months ago
True. Unless it offered Lagavulin 16 as part of the breakfast option, with a side of all the bacon. Then, I’m sure, he’d be willing to accept.
- medgremlin ( @medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•9 months ago
The enshittification of AirBnB actually makes me kind of grateful that I stand to inherit my parents’ timeshare that essentially just has a bunch of condos all over the place that you can book each year.
- gaael ( @gaael@beehaw.org ) 8•9 months ago
What is supposed to be the difference between capitalism and garbage ? Asking for a commie friend.
- its_me_xiphos ( @its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months ago
Everyone has garbage, so garbage is communism…?
*Friedman’s corpse spins in his market
- gaael ( @gaael@beehaw.org ) 1•9 months ago
:D
- novibe ( @novibe@lemmy.ml ) English3•9 months ago
Capitalism is when it turns everything into garbage and then you hoard it among a handful of people. Garbage is the product of human activity that is useless. So it’s not that there is a difference between the two, but capitalism is both garbage and produces garbage itself.
- bl_r ( @bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•9 months ago
I really want to meet someone who earnestly believes this lmao
- undeffeined ( @undeffeined@lemmy.ml ) 7•9 months ago
Right? Since when any of these companies were built with any other goal other than make someone rich?
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English8•9 months ago
Capitalism is meant to devolve into garbage by design so… Mission accomplished.
- Zworf ( @Zworf@beehaw.org ) 3•9 months ago
Yeah it was really cool when it started. But when people started running airBnBs as a business it turned into shit, and started ruining city centers too.
- TheOakTree ( @TheOakTree@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months ago
AirBnB started as a great example of a sharing economy, basically the peer-to-peer of travel lodging.
Now it is just a decentralized hotel system, but with no room service.
- Crotaro ( @Crotaro@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months ago
I have only had two AirBnB experiences in the past years (one of which was just a week ago). Maybe it’s just different in Germany or I got lucky, but our AirBnB hosts were always available (and actual locals instead of unknown house moguls) for questions, offered very decent apartments (especially for the price) and were at most half as expensive as the cheapest hotel in the same area (not even gonna mention the fact that getting a hotel with two dogs is hard to impossible anyway).
Yes, there was the sudden cleaning fee of 20€ and the stupid AirBnB fee but it only bumped it up from around 60€ per night to around 80€.