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0 pointscarlosjobim1y ago0 comments

> but parasites like AirBnB and similar companies making a killing off offering apartments 5x above normal asking price to rich nomads who will say "wow, it's so cheap!" without realizing they're being ripped off, and killing neighborhoods by driving rent prices up.

The parasites in this case are the landlords, not AirBnB. And they're the one driving the rent prices up, not the renters.

Why does everybody refuse to adress the elephant in the room? Because they have parents and uncles who live by exploiting young workers for rent, and don't want to hurt their feelings?

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diggan1y ago

> The parasites in this case are the landlords, not AirBnB. And they're the one driving the rent prices up, not the renters.

What about considering both as parasites, just different methods for achieving basically the same thing: "More money for me".

Obviously, the landlords are the ones who raise the prices. But I think it'd be ignoring reality if you didn't consider the fact that AirBnb made all of this so much easier and simpler from the landlords. There are platforms that let you sync to many portals, and even see what weeks you should raise the prices to optimize for as much profit as possible. AirBnb and the other platforms are contributing to a constant, collaborative raise of prices.

carlosjobimOP1y ago

AirBnB plays a very minor role in this. Yes, they make short-term rentals possible for landlords who are too dumb and lazy to be able to do it otherwise. There were other simliar platforms before AirBnB, there will be others after them.

diggan1y ago

> There were other simliar platforms before AirBnB, there will be others after them.

That's true, but it wasn't a huge industry like it is now, at least not here where I live (Barcelona, Spain). Once AirBnb appeared on the market, it kind of blew up in popularity. And while hotels/hostels needed permission from the government to make properties into hotels, the vacation rental market didn't (initially) so they ended up buying a lot of property meant for residents, but used it for tourists.

I'm not saying AirBnb is the sole party to blame here, but vacation rental companies do carry some responsibility for this.

rty321y ago

That's why the original post says "like Airbnb", and laws like those in NYC ban all of them.

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0 pointscarlosjobim1y ago0 comments

The parasites in this case are the landlords, not AirBnB. And they're the one driving the rent prices up, not the renters.

Why does everybody refuse to adress the elephant in the room? Because they have parents and uncles who live by exploiting young workers for rent, and don't want to hurt their feelings?

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diggan1y ago

> The parasites in this case are the landlords, not AirBnB. And they're the one driving the rent prices up, not the renters.

What about considering both as parasites, just different methods for achieving basically the same thing: "More money for me".

carlosjobimOP1y ago

diggan1y ago

> There were other simliar platforms before AirBnB, there will be others after them.

I'm not saying AirBnb is the sole party to blame here, but vacation rental companies do carry some responsibility for this.

rty321y ago

That's why the original post says "like Airbnb", and laws like those in NYC ban all of them.

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