What Airbnb Did to New York City

Re:What Airbnb Did to New York City by knuththetruth on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:34AM (#16544927)

Because to the kind of people who leap to the defense of businesses like Airbnb and slag off rent control, this is just an abstraction. They don’t know or care about the poor people who these policies helped, and think they’ll find some measure of safety by aligning themselves with the Capital class.

They won’t in the long run, but that’s where we are now.

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Re:What Airbnb Did to New York City by jadedhacker on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:47AM (#16545016)

It's a really good rhetorical trick they pull. "The Market" is making things more expensive because you pulled something off the market! Supply and demand buddy! Of course, if pulling some units off the market is good, why not pulling all of them off? The insane speculation has to stop, it literally destroyed the economy in 2008.

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