Hundreds of complaints against Booking.com are piling up as customers and hosts allege they have lost money, their property has been trashed and no-one is taking responsibility.
Yeah ok, sure, but again I feel like you’re focussing on the wrong thing here. It’s like you’re watching a video of a homeless man being beaten up, see someone jaywalk in the background and go “oh my god I can’t believe someone just jaywalked!”. Like, yeah, sure, you’re completely right, that is a bad thing to do, but I feel like there’s more important things going on here, and it’s really quite odd to focus on that, instead of the bigger evil here.
To be really super duper clear here: I think you’re right, the lady sucks. But there is a bigger problem here, namely booking.com. And focussing on the small fries rather than the bigger picture is just kind of weird. If anything we said or did on Lemmy mattered at all I’d say you were harming the greater good of bringing down booking by focussing on one tiny little instance of a symptom of the system rather than the system itself.
Or is this a fundamental disagreement in how to solve systemic problems? I believe systemic problems can only be cured with systemic change, like regulation, going after the root cause of the problem. Some folks believe it’s a matter of personal responsibility, and they believe that huge systemic problems can be solved by going after one individual at a time.
Booking dot com aren’t buying homes that families could live in are they? Booking dot com are just facilitating bitch face making money on a human right.
Systemic change is required:
banning people owning more than 1 or maybe 2 homes
taxing property earning at 90%
no tax deductions for property costs
building more government (fed, state and council) owned social housing
short term rentals susceptible to same rules as hotels
short term rentals requiring council approval
The game is rigged but we shouldn’t give a pussy pass to the players just because they can play. They should be shunned and labelled as traitors to society.
Yeah sure I’m in total agreement. But we’re not choosing between tackling property ownership systematically versus hurting the systematic evil of booking. We’re choosing between hurting one single landlord and hurting booking. And again for me this is a very obvious choice because I’m against booking for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but if you’re completely okay with booking, then I totally get why you would prefer hurting one single landlord over the neutral or benevolent entity of booking. I would arrive at the same conclusion.
Yeah ok, sure, but again I feel like you’re focussing on the wrong thing here. It’s like you’re watching a video of a homeless man being beaten up, see someone jaywalk in the background and go “oh my god I can’t believe someone just jaywalked!”. Like, yeah, sure, you’re completely right, that is a bad thing to do, but I feel like there’s more important things going on here, and it’s really quite odd to focus on that, instead of the bigger evil here.
To be really super duper clear here: I think you’re right, the lady sucks. But there is a bigger problem here, namely booking.com. And focussing on the small fries rather than the bigger picture is just kind of weird. If anything we said or did on Lemmy mattered at all I’d say you were harming the greater good of bringing down booking by focussing on one tiny little instance of a symptom of the system rather than the system itself.
Or is this a fundamental disagreement in how to solve systemic problems? I believe systemic problems can only be cured with systemic change, like regulation, going after the root cause of the problem. Some folks believe it’s a matter of personal responsibility, and they believe that huge systemic problems can be solved by going after one individual at a time.
Booking dot com aren’t buying homes that families could live in are they? Booking dot com are just facilitating bitch face making money on a human right. Systemic change is required:
The game is rigged but we shouldn’t give a pussy pass to the players just because they can play. They should be shunned and labelled as traitors to society.
Yeah sure I’m in total agreement. But we’re not choosing between tackling property ownership systematically versus hurting the systematic evil of booking. We’re choosing between hurting one single landlord and hurting booking. And again for me this is a very obvious choice because I’m against booking for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but if you’re completely okay with booking, then I totally get why you would prefer hurting one single landlord over the neutral or benevolent entity of booking. I would arrive at the same conclusion.