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Re:Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rule... by alpineidyll3 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:21PM (#37413231)
So much this. Animus towards Airbnb is simply envy. It is not possible to profitably run one while trashing a neighborhood.

People will spend twenty minutes reacting emotionally to this, never pay much attention to empirical changes in response, and never realize it was just fomo on their part.

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Re:Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rule... by subpixel on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:32PM (#37413666)
Americans have this disease where they think the loopholes that serve their economic betters will benefit them one day - the delusion is so strong they will support policy that works against their own interests.
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Re:Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rule... by alpineidyll3 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:12AM (#37416059)
Economic betters? Isn't the most logical assumption that I run one? Enjoy your cope, peasant.
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Re:Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rule... by jjulius on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:19AM (#37419260)
>Isn't the most logical assumption that I run one?

It was incredibly obvious from your first post that the person lambasting others for "reacting emotionally" was likely a host who might feel just a bit threatened by this news and buries their head in the sand when one of their sources of income pisses off others. "I'd rather keep getting mine, consequences to others be damned, fuck you very much."

>Enjoy your cope, peasant.

See? Just like that.

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Re:Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rule... by jjulius on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:53PM (#37413778)
Ah, yes, every single person who didn't like Airbnb in their neighborhood was just "jealous". Right, gotcha, glad we've cleared that up.

Sarcasm aside, I'm pretty sure that, "YoU'rE jUsT jEaLoUs," and not providing any other kind of counterargument for those opposed to Airbnb is a great example of "reacting emotionally".

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