Short term rentals would be fine if companies like Airbnb weren’t getting a cut. Like they existed on Craigslist and as actual bead-and-breakfasts way before airbnb et al existed.
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I do not use AirBNB anymore. I just use hotels or actual BNBs.
AirBnB was founded in 2007.
So almost everyone who is an adult knows what things were like before AirBnB.
Personally, despite having taken advantage of them (others have paid), I would like to go back to how things used to be.
For one thing, making sure I clean up is not what I should be worrying about when traveling.
You're not forced to use their service. Same way you aren't forced to use hostels.
That said, I'd like them gone for other reasons. I liked the original idea for the service, not what it's become. It's really fucked up some areas.
Not being forced to use a bad thing doesn’t make it not a bad thing.
I'm not forced to drive a car either - but if I try to ride my bike someplace, I'm likely to get run over by someone else's car, so...
It hasn’t even been in existence for 15 years, literally any adult with an income can imagine what life without Airbnb is like.
While that's true, short term (vacation) rentals existed well before airbnb, they just weren't so prevalent.
Yes, rentals existed before Airbnb but they were not monopolized by a foreign multinational company that is causing housing crises across the planet and that operates outside of legality
Airbnb is yet another monstrosity created by neoliberalism that is completely amoral and aims for profit above all things
I stayed at an Airbnb last weekend. Instead of paying over five hundred a night for a tiny non luxurious hotel room, I paid 300 a night (total, after splitting was 150) a night for a massive two bedroom apartment two blocks from the hotel room. Parking, everything included.
It was cheaper and better than a hotel. Are you somehow gonna make the hotel lower their price? For that to happen, they would need competition.
Hotels and airbnb killed mom and pop bnbs.
How so, and why should I care?
Airbnb offered an unfair advantage (venture capital and centralized) in cornering the market on a streamlined platform, vs decentralized bnbs. Then when covid came, the individual bnbs operating on a tight margin shuttered, while airbnb prevailed (with massive layoffs). Both the hotel industry and airbnb were able to jack up prices due to loss of competition from mom&pops.
I can't answer your second question.
Airbnb competes with itself, due to the individual hosts putting up their own listings. Or are you accusing them of being a cartel?
Airbnbs are not actually bnbs. They don't have free breakfast. They are just a room.
Businesses fail all the time. As long as they continue to have what I want at a price I want with the convenience I want, I'll keep using it. Just like ubers and DoorDash.
Who cares if VCs waste their money on an unprofitable business as long as the hosts don't create a cartel?