You forgot “cable television, but over the internet and no one has all the channels.”
Calling AirBnB “a hotel chain” is an insult to hotels.
Hotels don’t require you to clean somebody else’s house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn’t even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.
I have two younger kids. We can very close to renting a hotel on our last in-state vacation. It would have actually been somewhat cheaper. The reason we still went for the AirBnB was because our kids are asleep by like 7:30 and we didn’t want to be ‘trapped’ in the hotel room and didn’t want to rent a second. AirBnB made it significantly easier to find a house to rent.
That said, the number of AirBnBs in that area of the state has really grown. I can’t imagine that’s doing the people who live there any favors.
I use a AirBnB if:
- I’m bringing my dog. A house with a fenced yard beats a hotel for that hands down every time.
- Using the house is a major feature of the vacation. We live in an apartment in a city so sometimes it’s nice to just spend a week in a cabin in the mountains or a long weekend at a house with a pool.
- I’m traveling with a group and I actually want to spend time with those people. It’s nice to have a private social space that isn’t someone’s bedroom.
I prefer hotels if:
- I’m traveling solo. If I’m not renting a whole house, I want the hotel amenities. Plusi can pretend to be a bachelor again and act like a slob.
- I have an action packed trip planned. Every time I’ve been to Vegas I was pretty much only in my room to shower or sleep.
- I’m traveling with a group and know I’ll need some personal space.
These days I mostly use Booking, they list hotels as well as private properties which are properly classified and taxed and all that. Haven’t had an issue in years.
It is really terrible for the housing market when real estate investors buy out homes on the market for the sole purpose of renting them out in AirBnBs.
I doubt that anyone would want to live next to an AirBnB house.
“They make for shit neighbours” not the worst of it. It also significantly contributes to the increase in cost of living in the area because buyers and renters no longer have to compete with just each other but also with investors, and every house or flat that’s off the market only increases that competition further.
Cause nobody ever committed crimes for USD?
That’s not the point of that particular claim.
It’s actually embarrassing that we live in a world where people don’t know crypto is for money laundering, whores, and drugs.
Crypto is mainly for speculation.
Money laundering, drugs and prostitution is commonly done in other currencies.
Yes, you should feel at least a bit embarrassed.
When you do it with a computer it’s patentable and turns into a billion dollar business.
I’ll take the surveillance cameras strapped to a garbage screen strapped directly to my face with controllers
Self-driving road killer machines.
“Fake money for criminals” The US dollar has been around for quite some time…
My favorite is still “Human Misery Threshold” for businesses
Intellectual property is a figment of our imaginations. So I’m voting for the magical copyright violator box.
Plagirized reddit
Doorbell camera surveillance network
all money is fake tho?
Feel free to give me any of your fake money.
robux is also fake money, but i dont want to give you my robux.
Let me know when your Robux can buy a gallon of milk.
Seems like one of these things is not like the other to me…
Oh boy we’ve engaged nerd mode, my favorite!
Robux technically are just as legitimate as dollars it’s just we arbitrarily do not accept robux for milk because it’s new (aka not “legal tender”). If you want legal money, you’ll have to specify lmao
That seems to be the original point of this chain, am I wrong?
Edit: technically legitimate not meaning backed but as legitimate as any other made up tradable token, aka crypto. It might be more correct for me to say robux are technically as legitimate as crypto, but I’m not entirely sure right now about the exact phrasing I want to use.
Fine, feel free to give me both your illegitimate dollars and robux.
If they’re not legitimate, you won’t be needing them for anything… unless this is a meaning of ‘legitimate’ I was previously unaware of.
no money has inherit value, but we give it value. just like crypto.
really what is the actual difference? just because crypto is not backed by a corrupt government?
The American corrupt government insures your money through the FDIC, so if the bank collapses, you get to keep your money. Also, corrupt credit card companies do not force you to pay for transactions from a stolen credit card and you don’t lose money because of it.
What guarantees like those do crypto currencies have?
I added an edit that covers the tradable token part.
Their point is they don’t want to give you anything because, per the nerdy ass phrasing, those fake tokens are also tradable for things of minor interest, which is more interesting to have than not have. So why give away the tokens for free?
Their original point is just that money is made up (aka that it only has agreed upon socially determined value)
It’s as made up as morals and language and all sorts of other things that we only all agree on has meaning to us as a society.
Money for criminals*
Until everybody ruined it. When people started investing instead of spending, we were fucked.
Yeah I still stand by the technology (Eth and other smart coins, not Bitcoin), but there’s just so much bullshit surrounding the tech that it makes it really unpalatable and trashy
Me too. As long as there’s a demand for services that can’t be paid for in regular currency, crypto will be around.
I swear that most commenters are young people because back in the 90s-2000s, taxis and hotels were hot fucking garbage.
Taxis would go on joy rides to up the cost or refuse you if you were black.
Hotels would tell you to go suck a dick because their price listed outside is not for you, and if you want a place, they have a room with roaches near the heater.
Uber/Airbnb were gamechangers that broke that monopoly.
Unfortunately, they have gotten to shit. But you know what? Taxis and hotels have cleaned up their act. Because the moment they go to shit again, Uber/Airbnb will come in and eat their lunch.
When you call a cab it was often a game of 'will the can actually show up?"
Ah yes, I too remember the good old days of stumbling home drunk in the dark because my cab never came.
Don’t forget they take you the long way and go slow
I have fond memories of sitting drunk on a driveway waiting for the promised cab for hours. Because if they drive up and didn’t see you, they were gone.
Uber and Airbnb DID break that monopoly but they got their competative advantage by simply breaking the laws that existing taxis and hotels were required to adhear too. Still do break those laws but weight of cash > law.
Laws that the taxi and hotel companies lobbied for to stop competition.
And also (for Airbnb at least) regular zoning laws meant to prevent subletting and the loss of affordable housing to illegal hotels.
Almost as if it’s not the commodities that are the problem, but the economy they operate. 🧐
Taxis in my country would routinely ask for extra (usually 25-30% of the total fare) or have you pay them a fixed amount that’s way higher than if only the meter was used (about 2-3x the normal fare) . There are also taxis that have meters that are way too fast. Uber was a godsend when it first came out here.
In Italy taxis are a monopoly and uber is forbidden. For a 1h ride they ask you 120-150€. Luckily by train you can do the same ride quicker and for 5-10 euro.
I only know taxis and hotels as normal boring things in this time range.
They always where. Except in big touristic cities. There everything still is shit.
So nothing changed. We went from shit taxis and hotels to shit taxis and hotels complemented with shit uber and shit airbnb.
Ssdd.
I’ve never really had problems with taxis and hotels from the late 90s-2010s, only if I had a language barrier or a unique circumstance, mostly all my hotel problems involved other guests. Hotels were definitely cheaper I’d prefer to go back to that.
Not many people commenting the fake money for criminals lol.
probably because it doesn’t describe a real thing, much like the plagiarism machine.
I thought it was pretty cool when I used it to buy drugs.
Hey, its not fake money for criminals! It’s barely legal casino, sheesh!
