I remember when things like Uber and Air BnB came along the media was saying it was the death of cab companies and hotels. Well enshittification marches on and they've both become bogged down in costs, fees, rules, etc.
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and it has mostly reversed, now cabs/ or other rideshares and hotels are lower costs.
Corpos gonna corpo... Avoid them as much as possible that's the one of the few effective ways peasants got left to fight the parasite. Goverment, courts and media are always shiling for the corpos and their owners at pleb expense.
I'd shoot myself rather than using Airbnb again.
What. The. Fuck.
They haven’t been doing this from the beginning? That’s shady as all hell.
They had it originally and when they removed it is when I stopped using them. Like every other fucking "Uber of" tech company, they couldn't compete with the traditional thing they were trying to "disrupt" once the VC money dried up, and tried to cover for that with deception. Fuck them, I'll just book a hotel.
the only way there were going to disrupt is offer a cheaper sustainable service, that turned out to be the opposite in the long run, and airbnb has even caused harm in housing too.
In future news, AirBnB has gone bankrupt due to lack of bookings.
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