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Scale Ruins Everything

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175 points drc500free | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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endo_bunker ◴[14 Oct 24 20:09 UTC] No.41841389[source]▶
Comical to suggest that AirBnB "ruined communities" or "destroyed the dream of home ownership" as if decades of federal, state, and local government policy had not already guaranteed those outcomes.
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1. FooBarBizBazz ◴[14 Oct 24 22:25 UTC] No.41842765[source]▶
If anything, there is a housing cartel that we need an Uber-like blitz (times a million) to destroy. In the same way that Uber ignored local taxi regulations, you would need to ignore local zoning regulations. Just "build, baby, build", become valuable, and then, with your fait-accompli in hand, bribe the various local governments -- just like Uber.

Except -- if it took the combined might of Uber's VCs, and the disposable human battering ram that was Travis Kalanick, just to disrupt the puny little taxi industry, imagine what it would take to change housing. Ain't never gonna happen.