Arman · 8 answers · 4y

Have you ever used Airbnb? What do you like and dislike about it?

No. Like everything else to do with the gig economy, what’s billed as a fun way for the average Joe to make a few extra bucks has been turned into a giant, unregulated money-making exercise that ends up adversely affecting the people it was supposedly to benefit. Like Uber, it’s easy to be cheap when you don’t have to adhere to any of the training/safety/insurance/wage laws as the competition. Pricing local home and business owners out of the market while turning family neighbourhoods into streets of identical, overpriced short lease apartments occupied by people who don’t really give a shit about their surroundings and are only interested in having a good time and ticking off another ‘authentic’ instagramable moment is lamentable. I hate it.

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