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Re:Is the Airbnb Dream Dead? by ch4s3 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:42PM (#37082172)
The claim was "No one has extra money to travel and stay in AirBnBs".

Americans on average have plenty of money to do so. You're just arguing with the BEA definition of disposable income... which I guess is a perspective, but IMHO not a useful one. We could look at real household median income, which is also up https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N.

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Re:Is the Airbnb Dream Dead? by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:00PM (#37082322)
> The claim was "No one has extra money to travel and stay in AirBnBs".

(emphasis mine)

If income increases, but fails to increase enough to match a parallel increase in expenses, the "extra money to travel and stay in AirBnBs" has gone down.

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Re:Is the Airbnb Dream Dead? by ch4s3 on Monday August 14, 2023 @09:03AM (#37120577)
This is insanely pedantic, you must be a blast at parties. But, income has almost been tracking inflation. So plenty of people have extra money for travel.
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