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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] highenergyphysics@lemmy.world 89 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No Uber driver ever scammed me into paying double fare or refusing credit cards.

Uber is objectively a cancer upon society. They should legally employ their drives and pay a fair wage with prices to match.

All I’m saying is, it takes a real shitty industry for Uber to still be the better option. Every “innovation” in the picture is a complete joke and should never be used even for practical purposes, except Uber…

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Every “innovation” in the picture…should never be used…except Uber

It’s the holidays, there are a dozen(+) people in your family, and you want folks to fly in from out of state and have the kids play together in a living room while the adults cook together in a kitchen.

VRBOs are sold out.

Is Airbnb OK, if you respect the neighborhood (as best you can while still doing a short term rental)? If you rent from a family who happens to be out of town and not from a superhost with a hundred homes?

[–] eek2121@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Have you seen AirBnB pricing and some of the policies/fees the owners of properties have implemented? Cheaper to buy a camper.

[–] Stretch2m@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

If you rent from a family who happens to be out of town and not from a superhost with a hundred homes?

If there were some way to ensure this was the case, then I agree with you. As soon as you get people treating this as a business, it becomes a problem.