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How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion (www.arktrek.shop)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Remember back before Airbnb when this was just a free thing called couch surfing?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i mean couch surfing is guest and host being there and interacting with each other.

AirBnB is getting the flat for yourself for the time you rent it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

A big part of Airbnb used to be spending time with a host. It has since turned into just landlord via app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

That's exactly how airBnB started though. Then they moved to renting out the whole place and now we are where we are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Uber was originally marketed as ride-sharing, too. Just an app to find people going the same way. Of course, I'm fairly sure that their current iterations was the plan all along as anyone with enough business sense to start those companies must have predicted that there would be people who take on Uber/AirBnB as a primary source of income. But sharing your house or planning a shared trip is much more palatable than "Landlords but Worse".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

http://couchsurfing.com/ Still exists

But i can’t imagine as many people on there when they can just rent out for money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Not really. Couch surfing was only for a certain type of person.