The Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme
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#2I don't like how the article implicitly takes the city's side. Breaking monopolies is usually a good, just like uber and taxis.
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#3I don't like how the article implicitly takes the city's side. Breaking monopolies is usually a good, just like uber and taxis.
Is there a monopoly to break? Are all hotels in NY owned by the same group?
There are other issues as well of course, that Airbnb guests (and the owners) who are running a hotel don't care at all if their guests bother the neighbors, leave trash outside, etc.
It might be New York City, but it's also a community deciding how things are laid out and work, how they gather taxes, and etc in their city.
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#4I don't like how the article implicitly takes the city's side. Breaking monopolies is usually a good, just like uber and taxis.
Is there a monopoly to break? Are all hotels in NY owned by the same group? There are other issues as well of course, that Airbnb guests (and the owners) who are running a hotel don't care at all if their guests bother the neighbors, leave trash outside, etc. It might be New York City, but it's also a community deciding how things are laid out and work, how they gather taxes, and etc in their city.
I think what he wanted to say is to break regulations and zoning. Cities are too strict and Airbnb showed that it doesn't have to be that way, things kind of sort out themselves
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#6I can't help but feel bad for this guy. The city will try to make an example out of him while all the other rule-breakers will get off scott free.
There are hundreds if not thousands of other business schemes just like this one going on right now on Airbnb.
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#7I don't like how the article implicitly takes the city's side. Breaking monopolies is usually a good, just like uber and taxis.
Is there a monopoly to break? Are all hotels in NY owned by the same group? There are other issues as well of course, that Airbnb guests (and the owners) who are running a hotel don't care at all if their guests bother the neighbors, leave trash outside, etc. It might be New York City, but it's also a community deciding how things are laid out and work, how they gather taxes, and etc in their city.
If all the hotel, taxi, etc. owners group up to create a cartel to keep the status quo and not to disrupt the market, then that is also not exactly good.
The choice of a community does not necessarily mean that it is the right choice.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a monopoly to break? Are all hotels in NY owned by the same group? There are other issues as well of course, that Airbnb guests (and the owners) who are running a hotel don't care at all if their guests bother the neighbors, leave trash outside, etc. It might be New York City, but it's also a community deciding how things are laid out and work, how they gather taxes, and etc in their city.
If all the hotel, taxi, etc. owners group up to create a cartel to keep the status quo and not to disrupt the market, then that is also not exactly good. The choice of a community does not necessarily mean that it is the right choice.
Is what you're proposing, actually the case as far as hotels goes?
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#9I don't like how the article implicitly takes the city's side. Breaking monopolies is usually a good, just like uber and taxis.
Is there a monopoly to break? Are all hotels in NY owned by the same group? There are other issues as well of course, that Airbnb guests (and the owners) who are running a hotel don't care at all if their guests bother the neighbors, leave trash outside, etc. It might be New York City, but it's also a community deciding how things are laid out and work, how they gather taxes, and etc in their city.
It’s not “the community”. It’s a bunch of loud mouthed busy bodies and bureaucrats flexing their authority because it gets them a hit of that dopamine.
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#10Always interesting to see when the disruptor becomes the disrupted (AirBnb's One-Host One-Home policy), and then suddenly bending the rules is an issue.
You'd figure AirBnb would remember their days of being a rebellious teenager and provide legal assistance to these enterprising disruptors. Then again, maybe there's an AirBnb shell corp legal defense fund.