Airbnb actually provides a useful service, unlike PayPal which only extracts fees
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EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months agoWould you call any of those successful products ‘good’ tho? Yes they have made a lot of money but at the same time…2 of 3 are straight up evil. Ebay…eh. Could be worse. Thats all I can say there. Paypal has straight up stolen people’s money on countless occasions and gotten away with it. Then there was that huge violin fiasco. Airbnb is straight up a part of destroying the housing market, they know this, they don’t care.
I get it, most big companies are ‘menaces’ like you say but…these are absolutely horrible companies responsible for true evil and, odds are, he’s going to bring that energy to Mozilla.
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nestle provides a useful service, does that make their literal slave labor acceptable?
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Didn’t say that, I’m comparing companies that do nothing useful to companies that do something useful
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Would you want Nestle to take over Mozilla then?
Zorque@kbin.social 7 months ago
Giving an avenue for rich development companies to snatch up properties they can short-term rent to rich travelers is a useful service?
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because those companies can’t go to booking.com if there’s no airbnb?
Zorque@kbin.social 7 months ago
Assuning thats normally for hotels and such, not as easily, no. AirBnB's specific purpose is to remove barriers of entry for hosting people in your property. Initially that meant renting one of your rooms to a traveler on the cheap. Now it means companies that would otherwise have to jump through tons of regulatory hoops to put their properties on booking sites.
Not to mention... even if its the same, then its the same and still not a useful service, yeah? It's just another booking service. Which, coincidentally, mostly extracts fees.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Airbnb is a social plague, its perpetrators should be in prison.
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For what crime?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Large scale real estate without a license. Penalty : death in wood chipper, feet first.
treadful@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I don’t really disagree, but what do you want as an organization, someone that built a “good” product that nobody ever used and fell into obscurity? Or someone that built a product that attracted and retained millions of users that you might consider “bad”? And tbh, most of the “bad” from these products is just because of their size and monopoly, which would arguably be a good problem to have for Mozilla.
Probably an easy choice if I was on the board.
Also, not that it matters to our discussion but just as a minor correction, the new CEO is a woman.