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Airbnb: the biggest transfer of wealth from the renters and low-income folk to homeowners and wealthy in a generation.

Just like Facebook, etc, people who support/work for it are not without blame. Bankrolling huge political efforts to overturn regulations. Nonsense rules that allow corporate owners to buy up low-income housing turn it into vacation homes. Simply terrible company.

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"Just like Facebook, etc, people who support/work for it are not without blame."

I'd hate to hear what you think of people who work in the energy sector, or textiles, or agriculture, or any of the other dozen industries that cause farm more social and environmental harm than AirBnB could ever hope to.

Maybe people working in those industries _do_ share some blame. However, the linked article is not about any of those industries.

The comment was about workers and their relationship to the companies they work for. I expanded the conservation directly along those lines. Refusal to do so simply shuts down the conversation.

I've heard this before - can you articulate or link the reason why? It seems like the fundamental issue is housing and accommodation were wildly mis-priced and a fairly opaque market.

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