Airbnb was a bit more then a regulatory loophole, it at least started out as a new way for private homeowners to monetize one of their greatest asset. So it was much more an unused potential that was being tapped in.

The regulation that came after has in my personal experience privatized airbnb and now it's hard to find a private renter, when I started using it that was the standard.

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ethbr1 6 days ago | parent [-]

Once Airbnb became systemically harmful, regulation followed.

Nobody cares about small tech companies breaking the law for a few users.

Everyone cares about {insert bad outcome from mass regulatory avoidance}.

(Also, of the 3 airbnb founders, one has delusions of being the next Steve Jobs and turning it into an everything app (Chesky), another now works for DOGE (Gebbia), and the last is sucking up to Chinese government data requests (Blecharczyk)... so, yeah, not exactly the sort of folks that should be trusted with light regulation)

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wouldbecouldbe 5 days ago | parent [-]

I know many many friends who were able to survive an expensive city because of it. Cities that are largely messed up due to the governments stupid games with taxes and interest

	▲	ethbr1 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think we might have different definitions of things if "survive" and "because of airbnb" can coexist in the same sentence.
	▲	hiatus 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wonder if those places would be more affordable if there weren't airbnbs.