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Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by bogomipz »

nerfhammer wrote: post #4
edoceo wrote: post #2

Stunt or Stand? So much noise right now it's hard to tell. Hope Time demonstrates this as a genuine move. BigCo with lots of PR weight can really keep the story at the top (or push it over the top)

It's not PR. PR would never be so controversial. This will inevitably stir heaps of outrage from Trump supporters and the Trump administration. It's as much a gesture to make themselves and their own employees feel good. With something on the order of 40% of tech workers born outside of the United States who may be really scared right now, they may actually genuinely care about their coworkers! And this has the poten…

>"With something on the order of 40% of tech workers born outside of the United States who may be really scared right now."

Every time I hear this, the number seems to go up. Please provide a citation for that number. You are saying all tech workers in the US? There's no way that is possible. You realize that there is a larger tech work force in the US than just Silicon Valley right?

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by syshum »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #72
syshum wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont believe at any point I blamed any private for-profit organization for anything I was taking issue with the assertions that government is the sole, best or even most competent venue to address a social problem like homelessness. I was taking issue the the assertion that government somehow has more resources than the Collective Individuals and Businesses it derives its resources from

It is appointed to be the best and most competent venue to address problems like that. Government is the way "collective individuals and businesses" solve the problems that impact the whole society. Replacing it with something else is appointing yet another government, which will require yet another form of legislation (because there have to be the rules), yet another form of taxation and tax collection (because it w…

>>It is appointed to be the best and most competent venue to address problems like that. Government is the way "collective individuals and businesses" solve the problems that impact the whole society.

I do not believe that should be the function of government, nor that is was "appointed" to do any such thing.

The role of government is protect the negative rights of individuals, government "is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all." -- Frédéric Bastiat

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by rhapsodic »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #65
forgetsusername wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You select the disaster first and then offer your housing, which means the hosts are informed about their potential guests. Yes, you do. What is AirBnB's role besides providing the platform?

That's good itself because providing the platform is their core competence and they use it for public benefit. But if you think that it's not enough (for what?), they are also using their PR resources to spread the word and reach potential hosts who can participate.

Maybe someone should change the title of this post then, which, as I write this, is "Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US."

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by [deleted] »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #65
forgetsusername wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You select the disaster first and then offer your housing, which means the hosts are informed about their potential guests. Yes, you do. What is AirBnB's role besides providing the platform?

That's good itself because providing the platform is their core competence and they use it for public benefit. But if you think that it's not enough (for what?), they are also using their PR resources to spread the word and reach potential hosts who can participate.

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Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by jabgrabdthrow »

nollbit wrote: post #16
wyager wrote: post #10

Are they planning to force people on the platform to host refugees (paid, obviously)? I can see several practical problems with that; taking people from their home to a place where they do not speak the language or know the local culture and just dropping them off in standard residential housing can't end well for anybody. This also can't help AirBnB's case when it comes to NIMBYism.

Why would it be more of a problem with refugees than other, paying guests? Afaik, most US citizens staying at Japanese AirBnB's (for example) do not speak Japanese nor know the local culture. Do you think that's a problem as well? When I stayed at an AirBnB in Italy I knew nothing about the local culture nor spoke the language, nobody thought that was an issue. Or is this just, you know, racism?

> Why would it be more of a problem with refugees than other, paying guests?

How are war refugees different from tourists on vacation. Amazing. You just personally contributed to wearing out the word "racist" and growing the new right wing.

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by exodust »

bogomipz wrote: post #75
vayarajesh wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if it is a Stunt, people are still getting help and that's what matters

What help are refugees getting from AirBnB? The only details are: "Stayed tuned for more info"

The typo is odd. You'd think a piece of text as small as a tweet, and containing an unusual announcement, would be proof read before published.

"Stayed tune for another tweet with correct grammar."

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by exodust »

icebraining wrote: post #49

So to be clear, Airbnb is helping volunteering hosts to provide their houses for free, right? If so, this tweet is misleading, from its wording I expected Airbnb was compensating the hosts.

They should take it a step further and pay the hosts double to accommodate refugees. After all, if any guests are the sort to hang around the house all day instead of seeing the sights, it's refugees. They don't have sight-seeing money, and they have more luggage than normal guests. They're kind of stressed out too, due to being refugees.

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by [deleted] »

nollbit wrote: post #16
wyager wrote: post #10

Are they planning to force people on the platform to host refugees (paid, obviously)? I can see several practical problems with that; taking people from their home to a place where they do not speak the language or know the local culture and just dropping them off in standard residential housing can't end well for anybody. This also can't help AirBnB's case when it comes to NIMBYism.

Why would it be more of a problem with refugees than other, paying guests? Afaik, most US citizens staying at Japanese AirBnB's (for example) do not speak Japanese nor know the local culture. Do you think that's a problem as well? When I stayed at an AirBnB in Italy I knew nothing about the local culture nor spoke the language, nobody thought that was an issue. Or is this just, you know, racism?

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