Another CEO for mozilla. Good or bad news?

  • iopq@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Airbnb actually provides a useful service, unlike PayPal which only extracts fees

      • iopq@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Didn’t say that, I’m comparing companies that do nothing useful to companies that do something useful

            • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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              9 months ago

              No, but you are bringing up the merrits of an equally evil company and said thiet success is a sign of why they should be at the helm. I’m just trying to understand this.

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                9 months ago

                Air bnb is not evil, it’s people exchanging services for money. They just resolve disputes, show reviews, etc.

                The difference with PayPal is that they are not in any business, so they can’t necessarily resolve disputes other than relating to the payment itself. But the credit card issuer has exactly the same job, so PayPal is an extraneous intermediary

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                  9 months ago

                  Air BNB is, knowingly, helping to destroy the housing market. It’s so bad cities are talking about banning them because of how they are driving up prices.

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                    9 months ago

                    Not building enough proprieties is destroying the housing market.

                    Even if you ban airbnb, it doesn’t solve this fundamental issue. Stop blaming businesses for NIMBYs voting to stop housing development.

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      9 months ago

      Giving an avenue for rich development companies to snatch up properties they can short-term rent to rich travelers is a useful service?

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          9 months ago

          Assuning thats normally for hotels and such, not as easily, no. AirBnB’s specific purpose is to remove barriers of entry for hosting people in your property. Initially that meant renting one of your rooms to a traveler on the cheap. Now it means companies that would otherwise have to jump through tons of regulatory hoops to put their properties on booking sites.

          Not to mention… even if its the same, then its the same and still not a useful service, yeah? It’s just another booking service. Which, coincidentally, mostly extracts fees.