AirBnB built nothing. They figured out how to steal rental housing stock & make it into hotels, priced ppl who work in cities from being able to rent in them, and forced longer commutes & higher rents onto poor ppl. Spare us.
These "titans of innovation," who steal public goods like an available rental stock to a city of workers and try to put all risk on the poor, want to be known as "bold risk takers," then act like victims when there was an actual risk to their thieving business practices
A lot of my thinking about the role of Black cop post-BLM began with this thread about Brooklyn Nine-Nine in 2018
The week I wrote the Brooklyn Nine-Nine thread, these were some of the top stories tensing at the NYT next to its Brooklyn Nine-Nine story. (Note the@airbnb sorry.)
How can policing be funny when so many nonfiction stories are about the policing of Black & Native people?
How can policing be funny when so many nonfiction stories are about the policing of Black & Native people?
[This thread has become a weird war between unconvincingly folksy AirBnB lobbyists, equally unconvincing anti-AirBnB lobbyists (greedy for their own reasons), and people who really, ethically and righteously loathe AirBnB for its wicked ways]
