Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:42:01 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <3a27cadc-4cd3-4380-81a4-deb9d548e04b@googlegroups.com> <5467553.MhkbZ0Pkbq@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mrs5mdWNhIvwRR65Jp37igl81VcWTk0IZJIwHwcmw08kGQ1WZg Cancel-Lock: sha1:s2vWips3VFzNtxHQC6vxylN0W0A= In-Reply-To: <5467553.MhkbZ0Pkbq@PointedEars.de> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:38062 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn: [About Airbnb] > 2. Bullshit. I have been Airbnb-ing from Lombardia (Italy) to Scotland (UK) > in recent years and have not heard a single complaint from my hosts about > the business model (most of them are friends now). Of course a host which makes money with one or multiple Airbnb flats won't complain about the business model. But my point was something else: Quote: Landlords have realised they can make more money out of short lets to well-off Airbnb users than from renting to conventional tenants who live and work in the city year round, so when contracts come up for renewal it’s not uncommon to find the rent suddenly shooting up to levels that young Spaniards can’t pay. Once they’re forced out of the neighbourhood, the empty flat promptly disappears into what’s still sometimes euphemistically known as the “sharing economy”, although what happens next sounds like the antithesis of sharing. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de