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Comment by aleph_minus_one

13 hours ago

... but the customers of these Airbnb rentals are not. :-)

People whose houses are robbed are against robbery, people who rob houses are very much for it.

  • That’s a false analogy.

    You have two parties who want to enter into a contract and a third party unrelated to the contract that doesn’t for whatever reason. Just based on contract law and common sense the unrelated party shouldn’t have standing. Now if there’s externalities to the contract that impact that unrelated party sure, but only insofar as to get those externalities addressed.

    This is not the same as a robbery which involves no contract or a willing counterparty to the robbery.

    • Yeah, IME, if the guests of the rental acted exactly like locals, and the units were not removed from the local housing supply (not sure how that could be), or the local housing supply was in excess to the needs of the population (not sure where that is), it would be fine.

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People support anti-pollution measures yet corporations still choose to pollute. Curious.