Why Be a Renter When You Could Be a Sharelord? - The Awl
Given mounting to opposition to Airbnb from various , disparate parties , one might reasonably ask how the company will fulfill its grander ambitions of making it so that " every person in every country can stay with someone on Airbnb ," and in the process, push forward a " broader evolution in capitalism ," in which one's property and time become assets from which value can be unlocked by app middlemen, allowing you to maintain your ever-tenuous class position. While the Home Share Lobby works on transforming government policy so that it is more favorable to Airbnb, the company is taking a more straightforward route with an opposition group motivated more directly by self-interest: landlords, who currently don't get a cut of the revenue their tenants receive for renting out the apartments that they own. According to Bloomberg, Airbnb is "reaching out to some of the largest U.S.Read full article from Why Be a Renter When You Could Be a Sharelord? - The Awl
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