alt Hacker NewsAirbnb has the incentive to not tank their marketplace and they seem to be slowly responding to the increasingly negative sentiment to their brand. I somewhat suspect that their leadership lives in a bubble that insulates them from how lousy their brand is these days. I’m sure they have thought of lots of things but these would all cost money and require them to admit that their product is basically seen as a sketchy black market with a lot of sleazy behavior.
Yeah it’s not really an interesting problem, it’s basically how America works these days. Will it affect shareholder bottom line? If so, then we care. If not, we don’t. Pretty simple. America creates stuff that encourages this behavior and then acts all surprised pikachu when all of the beautiful incentives that were set up play out exactly as expected. The beatings will continue until morale improves