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How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion (www.arktrek.shop)

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[-] cybersin@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

Blaming AirBnB for high housing prices is like setting up a chain of dominos, and criticizing a guy who comes by and knocks it over.

Yeah, and that's exactly what they chose to do. They contributed to the reasons John Public can't afford housing, and were rewarded massively for it.

If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else, or the wind.

Yeah, anyone can rob a bank with poor security, but we should still punish the guy who actually robs the bank.

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