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/nebula_masterpiece 4h ago

Exactly this - the initial pitch was to capture unused spare bedrooms, not to build and buy homes just to use as hotel replacements

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u/TopVolume6860 1h ago

The initial pitch was just a lie to get millennials to try it out. The goal was always to lose money and undercut hotels until hotels went out of business then jack prices way up and cut costs (enshittify the service) with their new duopoly status like uber/lyft did to cabs only they found out hotels are way more resilient than cab companies were and it backfired on them

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 57m ago

The other difference is that the two industries, hotel and taxi, taxi is by far the worst of the two. Taxi cabs had way more regulatory capture that led to terrible service. I hate Uber/Lyft for their labor practices and fuck the gig economy but the Taxi companies had it fucking coming in spades.