Comment by rolandog
2 days ago
It sometimes feels like hotels are taunting us: "we're behaving like a cartel, whaddaya gonna do? Regulate us!? We've already tricked you into thinking that's socialism!"
2 days ago
It sometimes feels like hotels are taunting us: "we're behaving like a cartel, whaddaya gonna do? Regulate us!? We've already tricked you into thinking that's socialism!"
It's a weird flex for a time when airbnb and vrbo have options all over the place.
With hotels you're playing the lottery but there is generally a baseline consistent with the brand of the hotel.
With those two you're also playing the lottery but there is no baseline.
With a hotel, you're also generally paying when you check-in and can thus refuse a subpar room and argue with a real, mostly-reasonable person.
With those two, you get charged before you even enter the place and any arguments will be with a bot or a call center drone in a third-world country pretending to be one.
> there is generally a baseline consistent
Not having a bathroom with a door is an incredibly low baseline. I can only think of a single Airbnb that I’ve stayed in that’s been worse than that
(The key to the Airbnb was missing and the host was inaccessible)
>whaddaya gonna do? Regulate us!? We've already tricked you into thinking that's socialism!"
More like "I dare you, regulation will only further increase our moat"
I'm gonna go ahead and suggest that the "bathrooms must have doors" public health regulation is unlikely to increase any moats.
How does this have anything to do with 'public health'?
And almost any regulation gives a (relative) advantage to the people who can afford the lawyers and bureaucrats to furnish the documentation to show that they are in compliance.
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