bahbahmickey, Airbnb restricts the supply (or increases demand for a subset of customers, whichever way you want to look at it) which raises house prices on average. The guy who now can't afford the 700k apartment buys one in a slightly worse neighborhood for 650k, the person he outbid for the 650k apartment now goes to a worse neighborhood for 600k, etc. Same with rents.
Lamborghinis and NFL teams are different because everyone needs a place to live.
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In this example why do you (rapini, Ker Jung Owo, or anyone else) value people in DC being able to rent an apartment in DC over a tourist from say San Francisco, but then if I changed my example to San Fran then you would favor the woman living in san fran over a tourist from DC? In your mind, does it matter if the women in DC & san fran had the same income?
In both examples a community can decide to favor the people that live in it rather than visitors and tourists. There's nothing inconsistent about that and there are lots of good reasons for doing so. (to be fair there are also good reasons not to do it).
gregorio,
There's no excuse for that kind of lack of civility. Your behavior is why normal people think internet liberals are a pack of vicious little ****s.
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