Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

  • DavidDoesLemmy
    95·
    8 months ago

    What if you need to move interstate for work for a year. Are you meant to sell your house? And incur all the selling and buying costs? Are you meant to leave it vacant for a year? Or are you meant to let people stay in it for free?

    It makes sense to rent it out for the year, and rent yourself in the other state.

    • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      You’re right; lots of shitty edge cases exist. If you are trading 1 for 1 it’s not the core issue.

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      The long term solution to this is high quality public housing allowing people to move when needed. It’s a bit of a pipe dream in our current world, but if we are talking edge cases, I can be idealistic.

      Ownership isn’t for everyone, that’s okay, but profiting from a basic need for another human, shelter, is immortal. We should be a society that provides basic needs to people without allowing others to exploit them for profit.

      I am not saying everyone must own, and you can’t rent, but it’s the profiteering I have a problem with, not the need for someone to live or move.