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Re: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation

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Post by AlwaysRock »

anm89 wrote: post #368
AlwaysRock wrote: post #266

I'm a power user of Airbnb. I have never disliked a service as much that I pay continue to pay for other than LinkedIn. Both of these are because I have/had little choice. What it all comes down to is getting a shitting experience and paying a premium for it. I have a 30+ day stay that had been booked close to 6 months in advanced canceled 7 days before my stay because the user sold their house. Airbnb said they woul…

Looking for long term stays on airbnb is an absolute minefield. Yeah the owner should be forced to pay to put you up in a hotel of your choice if they optionally choose to cancel on short notice. > I'm a power user of Airbnb. I have never disliked a service as much that I pay continue to pay for other than LinkedIn As someone who has more or less been living out of Airbnbs for 5 years as as digital nomad I couldn't a…

I need a crash course in this language. I was mostly hit with empty promises and brick walls when I would ask them to deliver.

Re: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation

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Post by anm89 »

anitil wrote: post #380
anm89 wrote: post #368

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Looking for long term stays on airbnb is an absolute minefield. Yeah the owner should be forced to pay to put you up in a hotel of your choice if they optionally choose to cancel on short notice. > I'm a power user of Airbnb. I have never disliked a service as much that I pay continue to pay for other than LinkedIn As someone who has more or less been living out of Airbnbs for 5 years as as digital nomad I couldn't a…

> living out of Airbnbs for 5 years as as digital nomad Don't you find this stressful? Or are you just used to living with a bit of uncertainty?

Yeah traveling is great but this isn't a good way to live. It has been detrimental to my mental health

Re: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation

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Post by anm89 »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #381
anm89 wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking for long term stays on airbnb is an absolute minefield. Yeah the owner should be forced to pay to put you up in a hotel of your choice if they optionally choose to cancel on short notice. > I'm a power user of Airbnb. I have never disliked a service as much that I pay continue to pay for other than LinkedIn As someone who has more or less been living out of Airbnbs for 5 years as as digital nomad I couldn't a…

I need a crash course in this language. I was mostly hit with empty promises and brick walls when I would ask them to deliver.

Treat it as a court case, don't say any more than you have to and make the strongest case possible in every scenario. They are playing the same game on the other end so if you aren't very careful with your words and what you are arguing you will not get the outcomes you want.

Re: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation

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Post by throaway46546 »

bartread wrote: post #342
throaway46546 wrote: post #148

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Sounds like a NIMBY

Sounds like somebody who doesn't know what NIMBY means. Seriously, go and look it up before you throw your cheap and uninformed shots around. They aren't welcome here (and, yes, I note that you're hiding behind a throwaway account to do it, so you're gutless as well as ignorant).

Perhaps I misjudged you then. Why do you think building more housing would make the city "an absolutely intolerable place to be for everyone"?

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Post by imtringued »

pastacacioepepe wrote: post #204
iso1631 wrote: post #176

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> There is a housing crisis in the Netherlands Is there any western city where there isn't a housing crisis?

Perhaps there's something deeply wrong with western housing systems? I don't want to sound too radical, but this seems to be inextricably connected to capitalism. We won't ever solve it without structural changes. What Amsterdam is doing is a decent start at least.

The US was the land of the free because there wasn't an existing land owner dynasty. Now there is.

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

dragonwriter wrote: post #378
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #375

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There was no "battle for power" between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. It was a political discussion between two blocks inside the party long before it took power.

> There was no “battle for power” between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. It was a political discussion between two blocks inside the party long before it took power. That’s completely false. While they were at one point two blocs in the same party, the dispute was never resolved, and it split into two different parties before the overthrow of the monarchy, and continued to have conflict through the revolutionary period c…

You should be more careful with using 'completely false' wording.

Where is the 'battle' thing in all these events? Bolsheviks took power, and Mensheviks never had it, and were never a force in the subsequent civil war. They were just banned and later former members were mostly purged.

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Post by imtringued »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #363
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #327

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Single use zoning lives due to NIMBY and voter/pol tunnel vision. The former stays forever while the latter is in play.

It's not just "NIMBY and voter/pol tunnel vision." Corporations that own houses don't want their value to decline. People renting properties out on AirBNB don't want their value to decline. They're just different categories of existing property owners who want property values to stay high or increase more. The mechanism they all use for that is restrictive zoning. To win that you have to defeat them all. That's why i…

Strangely enough Americans demonize building more houses while in Germany it is the obvious solution.

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Post by imtringued »

dorchadas wrote: post #238
hatchnyc wrote: post #222

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It's old vs young, new vs established. For most homeowners, their home is their most valuable asset. It's just not possible to simultaneously maintain high property values and have affordable housing. Given this, any "solution" to housing affordability is "solving" a problem that a sizable and highly influential segment of the population doesn't want solved. On the contrary, you see real government action whenever ho…

And that's what I think OP was alluding to about it being "inextricably connected to capitalism". As long as we treat housing like an asset, we'll have this problem. And I don't see how there's any other way to treat housing under a capitalist system.

You mean an asset with a guaranteed return at the expense of late arrivals who must buy the asset from you. The vast majority of rent seeking is based around coercion. When people advocate for free markets nature seeps through. After all, coercion is completely natural. We don't have heaven on earth so why would a free market lead to the ultimate manifestation of heaven?

Get rid of the coercion and you get rid of the problems.

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Post by imtringued »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #376
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #372

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Yeah it's a shame that no one thought about fighting inequality making workers wealthier so far, thank God there are people like you that enlighten us, you're also one of those who found that guns don't shot people but it's people that shot people, right? If the solution is that then why the rich oppose the increase of minimum wage? What should be the solution to making workers wealthier without touching the bosses?…

Because despite what you think, people doing business aren't actually that rich. When you chant socialist crap like "bosses get rich by stealing wealth from workers" [1], you casually omit that many businesses are scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep workers employed (as in putting the food in the tables) in the first place. And that mandatory increasing workers' wages would result in their immediate termination…

A lot of those jobs shouldn't exist in the first place.

Most of the time minimum wage increases just result in cost push inflation at the bottom of society. Yes, that means the middle class and above will have to pay more for services provided by minimum wage workers. The upper classes aren't hurting for money so they actually end up paying those wages anyway.

Re: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation

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Post by [deleted] »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #386
dragonwriter wrote: post #378

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> There was no “battle for power” between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. It was a political discussion between two blocks inside the party long before it took power. That’s completely false. While they were at one point two blocs in the same party, the dispute was never resolved, and it split into two different parties before the overthrow of the monarchy, and continued to have conflict through the revolutionary period c…

You should be more careful with using 'completely false' wording. Where is the 'battle' thing in all these events? Bolsheviks took power, and Mensheviks never had it, and were never a force in the subsequent civil war. They were just banned and later former members were mostly purged.

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