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points by jmuguy 4 days ago | 0 comments

So Airbnb is responsible for the individual hosts who decide to do something illegal? People have been doing short term rentals for a long time, including online, before Airbnb - what specifically did the company do that was so bad that its the same level as the gambling enabled by Kalshi etc?

[–] sailfast 4 days ago

This might be a controversial take, but if you take a small cottage industry and make it a consolidated global platform that is growing the practice on purpose by thousands of percentage points, then the platform IS actually responsible.

As for the gambling bits I guess if I had to answer it would be property investors that bought thinking they could rent on AirBnB - speculation but also driving up prices in popular areas to price out locals.