Hacker News Reader

Comment by lifeisstillgood | Hacker News Reader

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)

View on HN

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.

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 ...

> 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.

Distribution only exists because geography is a thing.

They used to be.

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.]

Friend, why are you being so combative?

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I'm sorry for being a jerk today.

:ok_hand: been there

Reply on news.ycombinator.com