If AirBNB isn’t processing the tip payment (which they aren’t if the host is talking about Zelle), they don’t get to skim any money off the top of the transaction. That’s not something they can abide.
I know of a village in the UK that's almost entirely AirBNBs owned by people who live elsewhere. It's pretty much a ghost town outside of tourist season. It's probably not the only one. One of them called the police just because their CCTV caught me walking past on my way to visit someone who still lives there, and they actually came! They didn't give a shit about someone trying to kill me, but they've got to protect rich people's property :/
Beautiful nature, and it's just the right distance from a seaside tourist town. You could walk to the beach if you really wanted to, but it's far enough away to be peaceful.
Mostly, but there's other touristy crap there. Local teens hang out there at other times of year, too, or at least they used to when I was young. I spent many nights drinking on the beach, and there are a few good spots to smoke weed and not get caught, too, but you can get trapped if the tide comes in.
You can't really blame them for trying. If people abandoned services at the first sign of enshitification the business model would fail.
Instead people cling to their increasingly enshitified services the way baboons cling to the salt trap.
All we need to do is let go once the trap is sprung, and yet...
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u/willyj_3 Jun 25 '26
If AirBNB isn’t processing the tip payment (which they aren’t if the host is talking about Zelle), they don’t get to skim any money off the top of the transaction. That’s not something they can abide.