{"id":181519,"date":"2016-06-01T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/01\/the-secret-allure-of-the-sharing-economy\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T03:28:00","slug":"the-secret-allure-of-the-sharing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/01\/the-secret-allure-of-the-sharing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Allure of the Sharing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can form a big company and create pseudo free agents who are <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/307639\/black-man-booked-airbnb-racism\/\">free to be bigots<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">This is a story of an Airbnb experience I recently went through. I met this awesome lady Crissie in my Facebook group. Super nice lady, successful business owner, beautiful family, and they live in a small town in Idaho.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Crissie would post these amazing videos of the land and the snow, and the mountains and trees, and I told her one day I would come visit.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It\u2018s so absolutely beautiful there!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I like my space when I travel, and thought it would be fun to find a cool cabin.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Everything was set! As usual, I included a bit of info about myself on the Airbnb listing to put the host at ease<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">First response: Dang! No luck, even though the dates were available all of a sudden, the host said she was going to use the place.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">No biggie, I\u2019m really flexible. Crissie told me late June is good as well, so I rebooked for June.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">CANCELLED! Well damn. So it wasn\u2019t really the dates\u2014the host cancelled my new request and ignored all future messages.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">So I had a white friend book for my same dates, and all of a sudden her plans changed back. Approved immediately!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some similar stories and links described at the article.<\/p>\n<p>I rather expect to find the same thing in all the similar apps.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that a black man finds getting an Uber or Lyft just as hard as finding an old fashioned taxi.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it might be harder, because there is no taxi commission collecting data on fares and origination and destination points.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why this sh%$ needs real regulation with teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can form a big company and create pseudo free agents who are free to be bigots: This is a story of an Airbnb experience I recently went through. I met this awesome lady Crissie in my Facebook group. Super nice lady, successful business owner, beautiful family, and they live in a small town in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1005,970,997,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-business","category-corruption","category-internet","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}