Why Airbnb is dead to me

Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by mistermann on Monday September 28, 2015 @02:55PM (#10292250)

The older I get the more cynical I get, and the further I drift leftward politically in favor of more government regulation, the underlying reason I think being that generally speaking, most cultures (and especially "high achievers" within) are fundamentally dishonest - like teenagers, they often cannot be trusted with serious responsibility. They have highly potent skills, but they don't have the corresponding maturity or morality to safely wield those skills.

And this goes not only for small startups, it is applicable across huge blue chip companies as well, the latest being VW (and now it appears other auto manufacturers).

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by dandare on Monday September 28, 2015 @03:02PM (#10292312)

A guy from post communist country here: how is more government regulation going to solve anything?

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by mistermann on Monday September 28, 2015 @03:30PM (#10292537)

By restricting what companies can and cannot do and forcing them to prove certain risks are genuinely covered before coming in and "disrupting" (aka destroying) industries that have generally done a somewhat decent job of things for decades.

I'm just getting tired of people advocating free market principles and proclaiming that industries will police themselves, and then turning around and lying and cheating, with next to no consequences. I'm saying this as a pretty extreme economic right wing person - today's conservatives bear little resemblance to traditional ones.

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by aianus on Monday September 28, 2015 @04:01PM (#10292783)

> to prove certain risks are genuinely covered

Why? I'm well aware of the risks of using AirBnB (or being a contractor instead of an employee or whatever) and choose to take them on because I believe I come out ahead overall. Not everyone wants the nanny state watching out for them at every opportunity.

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by mistermann on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:49PM (#10294149)

Not even reads Hacker News - feel free to link the location on AirBNB's website that informs regular people about the nature of things that can go wrong, and details on how they will handle that (or not, as the case may be).

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by mistermann on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @09:20AM (#10296018)

*Typo: Not everyone reads Hacker News...

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by rfrank on Monday September 28, 2015 @05:45PM (#10293433)

And not everyone wants neighbors who destroy their quality of life because of their perceptions of a "nanny state."

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by RodericDay on Monday September 28, 2015 @03:15PM (#10292405)

You can hit a sweet spot between 2015 USA and Cold-War China and USSR.

ps. Upholding claims of private property with a state-monopoly on violent means of coercion is "government regulation". So you just build upwards from there.

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by Xeoncross on Monday September 28, 2015 @03:22PM (#10292460)

Well, unlike teenagers, the government is known for its honesty

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by alttab on Monday September 28, 2015 @03:48PM (#10292698)

Sarcasm, right?

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by coldtea on Monday September 28, 2015 @04:15PM (#10292880)

A guy from a never communist country: privatization is not all that it seems to be when you've had to live under a "really existing socialism". Neither capitalism, for that matter.

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by fauigerzigerk on Monday September 28, 2015 @04:34PM (#10292997)

Barcelona's hospitality industry is heavily regulated. Renting away private rooms via Airbnb is actually illegal there. Clearly, there needs to be a debate about the right kind of regulation, not just about more or less regulation.

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by Lawtonfogle on Monday September 28, 2015 @04:26PM (#10292955)

>but they don't have the corresponding maturity or morality to safely wield those skills.

Or their morals differ from your own. They may lack your morality, but that does not mean they lack morals.

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Re:Why Airbnb is dead to me by mistermann on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:51PM (#10294158)

If actual outcome is different than that which is implied, it isn't a difference of morals, it is misrepresentation or fraud, or at least dishonesty, lack of full disclosure.

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