Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation

Post by elzbardico » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

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Let me tell you. I was a poor boy growing in a tourist city in a latin american country. It was a small town, a bit sophisticated, so we got the cream of the tourism business: Upper middle class families. Indeed, plenty of money flowed into the city. But, it was not distributed equaly. Social mobility was almost null, because tourism have lots of jobs, but most of them low skill jobs. Then, there's this permanent hum…

Then, there's this permanent humiliation of feeling like a servant in your home-town, because the local upper class makes very clear to you peons, that you're less important than the tourists, and they also think this very clearly. We see this happen in the US, too, when a handful of billionaires buy up small town property and turn it into a resort town, driving out the locals. Some of my friends in that situation go…

Post by toshk » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

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Do you always attack people so personal? "Education on me has been wasted" :)? I said GroenLinks was dominant under upper white middle class. Which it is since it's the biggest party in the council at the moment and was by far the most popular in White upper class neighborhoods like west and ijburg last local elections. And is by far, with it's dominant leader, the most dominant voice in the current council; to call…

>Do you always attack people so personal? "Education on me has been wasted" :)? I specifically take offence that you were suggesting on a forum like this that Amsterdam is some anti-capitalist stronghold, which is just ridiculous, and if you spread that notion in a place like this, you are doing economic harm to the Netherlands, which i am assuming you are part of. So that would be .. not so smart. >I said GroenLinks…

Post by namdnay » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

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Not since 9/11 , the security theatre is still very painful, even in first. I'm sure it's much more comfortable if you're flying general aviation, but that's still way more expensive than commercial ever was, even in the 60s

I don't have an arab complexion, but TSA has never been that much of a hassle for me. Is it really that bad for you? I just have to take my belt and shoes off and take my laptop out. There are lines, but it usually doesn't take me more than 20 minutes to get through.

Post by awillen » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC

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> One of the reasons why all these SV tech business got away with it is the fact that they are all located in US Well, they could still be (at the very least) prohibited from operating in your country. Sadly, most of these services (Airbnb, Uber) were also illegal here in the US, but for "some reason" (aka lots and lots of $$$), no one ever bothered enforcement against them. Eventually they spent enough money on brib…

In defense of the short-sighted public (me), I don’t know the operating costs, profit requirements, accounting model, etc of a hired car service. I can’t assume any time the price of a product goes down, that someone is trying something shady. I can say I loved Uber et al primarily because unlike any experiences I ever had with calling a taxi, a car actually showed up to bring me to my destination. If I correctly int…

Post by kevinventullo » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 7:49 PM UTC

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Regulatory arbitrage of some sort seems to be involved in many recent digital business models. Whether it concerns or involves (lack of) data privacy regulation, "reinventing" labour contracts or undercutting taxation frameworks, it is a most cruel reminder of how poor the management of the commons. While many of the efficiencies and attractions of re-inventing various businesses for the "digital age" seem genuine, t…

The prosocial case for regulatory arbitrage is that regulations can be good or bad but either way are usually sticky- so when they’re bad they’re bad for a long time. Societies, like all things, accumulate cruft over time and without arbitrage bad regulations won’t get reset until govt or economic collapse forces a major reset. Arbitrage offers exposure to a world without some regulation and people can decide if they…