Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

  • Phegan@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    If you are making money on a place where someone lives then it all counts.

    Airbnb is worse than traditional landlords because they remove supply for people to live (excluding shared spaces).

    • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
      1·
      7 months ago

      What if you need to move interstate for work for a year. Are you meant to sell your house? And incur all the selling and buying costs? Are you meant to leave it vacant for a year? Or are you meant to let people stay in it for free?

      It makes sense to rent it out for the year, and rent yourself in the other state.

      • Phegan@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        The long term solution to this is high quality public housing allowing people to move when needed. It’s a bit of a pipe dream in our current world, but if we are talking edge cases, I can be idealistic.

        Ownership isn’t for everyone, that’s okay, but profiting from a basic need for another human, shelter, is immortal. We should be a society that provides basic needs to people without allowing others to exploit them for profit.

        I am not saying everyone must own, and you can’t rent, but it’s the profiteering I have a problem with, not the need for someone to live or move.