I know it sounds like free market dogma, but I swear this is true: supply grows to meet demand. Airbnb will just encourage more housing to be built, by creating a new short term housing market that until now had not existed.
Often they are bordered by Federally or state owned land, and have limited supplies of water due to the simple fact that they are on top of a mountain and there is only so much water in the natural aquifers.
Building taller buildings and using water more efficiently will only get you so far...
To phrase it more glibly: "Necessity is the mother of invention."
"Where are people supposed to go when even the middle class is homeless?"
They can go to places that aren't mountain towns. EDIT: or they can build new mountain towns. There is no shortage of mountains.
Supply grows to meet demand, but what if the demand side has no money left? I think a lot of these "timeless" rules of thumb are going to be discovered to be not so timeless after all.
In any case, this is completely unrelated to housing usage patterns.
It says that centuries of real wage increases an effect of automation.
I'm sure it's entirely different this time though.
What about the median wage?
> which shifts the demand curve for labour to the right, causing wages to increases
Are you suggesting automation has resulted in most of the new wealth being broadly distributed to workers rather than concentrated in the top 10%?
[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-glo...
[2] https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where...
[3] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...
[4] https://www.brookings.edu/research/make-elites-compete-why-t...
2) Wage growth ignores the unemployed.
3) Ignores unemployment. "Most importantly, the growth in the average real wage is largely determined by improvements in labor productivity, output per worker hour."
4) Partially true (I very much agree with the protectionist immigration point), but there are many issues with that article as well.
With current wave of automation, unskilled jobs are being destroyed, and specialized jobs are being created. The people leaving the former can't access the latter.
Of course it is. Which is obvious if you look at how automation before differs from automation today.
And I'm going over the obvious memes now, but:
> Replace the word automation with: horseless carriage
Yes, and replace the word "human" with horse", and tell me the invention did not have a dramatic impact on the population that was doing the work.
Humans are incomparable to horses. Horses cannot buy automobiles. They do not have property rights, or the capability to utilize them.
Clearly you've never been to San Francisco.