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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by lifeisstillgood on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:29PM (#17878711)
This is the heart of the matter. it is also the heart of globalisation and the very heart of the internet - we should be very aware of the massive social dislocation caused by the globalisation of the food industry in 1870s following the first wave of refrigeration (ice in atlantic ships)
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by eerwrq on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:45PM (#17878873)
Globalization has nothing to do with this. The problem is that AirBnB reduces an already-tight housing supply by turning homes into hotels. This would be an problem regardless of whether the tourists were international or domestic.
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by lifeisstillgood on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:07PM (#17881241)
Kinda ... globalisation is just a term for some change in the equilibrium in neighbouring markets that allow participants in one to take part in both. Could be transport costs, could be information changes.

I was thinking tourists == international, but the analysis and the name still is fair i think

Plus to be fair, America is a continent that thinks it's a country so ideas of international tourism are flexible ...

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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by piker on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:32PM (#17878742)
> it is also the heart of globalisation and the very heart of the internet

Except that real estate is intrinsically a geographic issue. Manufacturing and distribution aren't.

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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by danharaj on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:36PM (#17878788)
Distribution only exists because geography is a thing.
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by cwyers on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:34PM (#17878765)
They used to be.
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by eerwrq on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:46PM (#17878883)
Ok. So does that change the argument in any way? Or are you just being pedantic.

[edit: yeah i'm being dumb. i felt the discussion was being derailed, but thats no reason to yell at strangers on the internet.]

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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by danharaj on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:47PM (#17878901)
Friend, why are you being so combative?
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by eerwrq on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:14PM (#17879189)
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I'm sorry for being a jerk today.
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by danharaj on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:17PM (#17879229)
:ok_hand: been there
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