r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 7h ago

Society New Airbnb rules ban hosts from making guests wash dishes, do laundry & other checkout chores

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/new-airbnb-rules-ban-hosts-from-making-guests-wash-dishes-do-laundry-other-checkout-chores-3420832/
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u/WhoPoopedMyPants420 4h ago

The issue is that vacation rentals have been around for a long time. That wasn't the innovation, AirBnB just did to vacation rentals what Uber did to cabs

Finding a way to scale that business into a volume-driven, slop-filled feeding frenzy was the idea

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u/DiamondsInHerButt 4h ago

This is just Silicon Valley in a nutshell. Take an existing business sector that's existed normally for decades and "disrupt" it via app that basically only offers a search engine that tends to get intentionally worse over time while offering no customer support because the whole point of it is just taking their piece of the pie.

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u/Mediocre-Writer6635 3h ago

Eh, they provided better services than stagnant, shitty industries that thought they had customers by the short hairs. Good for them. People use uber over taxis because taxis suck.

They were often filthy, constantly trying to scam you, they weren't available in some areas, of course no app or other modern basic conveniences. Talk about customer service? what customer service did taxis have?

Uber is just enshittifying same way but that just means it is not great. It's still better than taxis. Otherwise people would just use taxis.

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u/rufud 3h ago

I think you are glossing over the enshittification of uber/lyft. They are entirely the same as other cab companies. Cab companies have had to adapt to the new technology but remember how uber was way cheaper and you didn’t have to tip? Not anymore. It also eviscerated the zipcar industry into those crappy scooters/bikes you can rent. It was originally envisioned as what if two people going to the same place just happen to ride share? Then, just like air bnb, the drivers just wanted be like cab drivers but for the gig economy. We swapped out a bunch of crappy things about the cab industry for a different set of crappy things.

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u/Own_Back_2038 2h ago

You definitely don’t have to tip an uber.

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u/Geminii27 1h ago

Encourage its use while providing absolutely no accountability or adherence to actual laws, then scoop up the profits of other people's crimes and claim no knowledge of said crimes.

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u/wimpymist 3h ago

The original pitch of Airbnb was awesome. Paying someone $100 to sleep in their spare bedroom while traveling when all you needed was a place to sleep was awesome.

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u/DaBingeGirl 1m ago

I refuse to use Uber or Lyft too, just taxis for me.