Comment by WheatMillington
2 days ago
It's hard to understand what you want here... No one is making excuses for the hotels? Literally "don't stay there, go somewhere else, and tell everyone you know" is as much power as an individual can possibly muster in this situation. Why do you think this is "making excuses for your masters"? What is your solution?
Regulation is when individual action isn’t enough.
Regulation is a form of collective action.
And it doesn't even need to be government regulation.
The hospitality industry has self-imposed standards as to what kind of amenities a facility should have in order to rate as a two-star hotel, three-star hotel, etc. Things like TV, shampoo, and hair dryer are on that list. If customers make enough noise about bathroom doors, the rating organizations might actually add that as a requirement.
Yep! Government regulation is basically when the industry puts their heads way too far into the sand.
Regulation isn’t a collective action, at least not in the US. People don’t regulate hotels will ballot measures so you’re left with whatever the whims are of some representative.
The American system, for better or for worse, is a representational based political system. Unfortunately that means that our political power is not direct.
That doesn't make it "not collective action", just collective action through an intermediary. Sometimes that's very clearly willed by people, sometimes (often) not. Doesn't mean we should throw out the baby with the bathwater though.
> don't stay there, go somewhere else, and tell everyone you know
You might be very comfortable sharing the story about the situation, but I hope you can appreciate that not everyone else would be.
The mistake is assuming we have to act as individuals.
Turns out, society can actually do things collectively when a bunch of people work together instead of just pulling the libertarian "move your family into the woods and suffer" lever that's so popular online.