The sharing economy aka Uber and AirBNB depends upon high social trust. Certain peoples are more trustworthy than others.<\/p>\n
Growing up in Australia, people rarely locked their homes or cars because Australia was safe. <\/p>\n
Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n * If an AirBnb guest refuses to leave, it can take 2 months or more to evict him. You have to be very wary who you rent to, much more than a hotel.<\/p>\n * Are Black guests more likely to trash the place, clog up the toilets, and or steal items & furniture from the Airbnb houses and apartments that they vacation at?<\/p>\n There has to be a reason why Black guests on average have a bad reputation in the world of Airbnb.<\/p>\n If Black lives matter, than Black manners should also matter.<\/p>\n * How close are we to shaming people for racial and sexual discrimination on \u201cdating\u201d apps?<\/p>\n If a white woman has never accepted any black men on Tinder, isn\u2019t it in everyone\u2019s best interests that she be exposed as a racist?<\/p>\n \u201cRacism somewhere (including a bedroom) is racism everywhere\u201d \u2013 MLK<\/p>\n * I wonder which racial and ethnic groups on average make for the best Airbnb house guests? Meaning they don\u2019t leave your place in a pigsty when they leave and they didn\u2019t steal anything.<\/p>\n * I wonder if Uber drivers are discriminating against hails from MLK Boulevards across the country?<\/p>\n * I just can\u2019t imagine having strangers in my house. Irritating relatives are bad enough. Not a snowball\u2019s chance in hell some tranny is staying for a couple of nights.<\/p>\n * Tragedy of the Privates:<\/p>\n Renting properties to vibrant houseguests<\/a> may have (foreseen) consequences.<\/a><\/p>\n Shots rang out at a rented Lynnfield mansion last month, and dozens of party guests scattered. <\/p>\n Officers who raced to the gated property tried to intercept the fleeing crowd just after 3 a.m. May 29, but no one would stop. Some hurled expletives at police as they jumped into cars or ran from the party at 8 Needham Road.<\/p>\n Inside the gates, officers found a man lying face up near the pool. Keivan Heath, 33, had suffered two gunshot wounds to the chest and was left for dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n * Can you demand a certain credit score like owners do when they rent apts?<\/p>\n It might take you longer to rent the room but it most likely will give you a better renter.<\/p>\n * I am willing to bet sex discrimination is even more prevalent than race discrimination. A single woman would likely be wary of sharing her home with an unknown male. I think sex discrimination is perfectly reasonable.<\/p>\n * Was 1964 before 2008?<\/p>\n Because, as far as letting strangers rent rooms in your home, I recall, as a boy, seeing numerous small \u201cRoom to Let\u201d signs in the windows of houses along highway 41, which was then a major north\/south arterial from Duluth to Miami.<\/p>\n Evidently back then, people had few qualms about renting rooms to transient long-haul truck drivers. I wonder what\u2019s changed?<\/p>\n Mmmm, what was that message I saw earlier today on the Telescreen right after the Two Minute Hate?\u2026..Oh yes, \u201cDiversity is Strength, Every One is Everyone, My Home is Your Castle\u201d\u2026hmm, I\u2019ve got to remember to take my pill, now where did I leave them? It\u2019s getting so hard to remember things anymore\u2026..<\/p>\n * Eventually we\u2019ll be back to colonial days, when you couldn\u2019t refuse lodging to anybody the king sent you.<\/p>\n * Speaking of B&E, I am a host, and after 4 years had my first B&E this weekend. Guest checked out, but kept his key and came back in the next night and passed out drunk on the couch after checking if his room was available at 3am. It was not.<\/p>\n I won\u2019t go into all the details, but to make a long story short, the guest was still drunk in the morning and refused to leave for a while as he made phone calls. He complained to his girlfriend who complained to me that my wife was \u201cbehaving badly\u201d and that\u2019s why after offering to pay for this additional night, he rescinded his money.<\/p>\n I am going to try to make them pay for new locks for the entire building and 4 sets of keys for 45 units\u2013several thousand dollars. As he is Turkish, I will try to lock him out of the country forever if it comes to a court case.<\/p>\n My larger point on race and AirBnb was going to be this. I\u2019ve hosted about 1000 people over the last 5 years. I\u2019m a pretty trusting and friendly person or this wouldn\u2019t be possible. Despite the story I lead with, I\u2019ve had very few negative experiences and quite a number of especially positive ones.<\/p>\n But I will tell you this. With White guests, I have problems about 1 in 50 guests. With Black guests, I have problems with half of them. Roughly half. And there are some rather funny stories out of those. Quite a few who never got through the front door as they started off with a story of how their suitcase was lost and wallet stolen and needed a place to pay in cash cause they were just in town for their father\u2019s funeral (and apparently had no one to stay with\u2013not even the \u201cdead father\u2019s\u201d empty bed, I guess.) For six months already, I have been keeping a file of positive reviews from Black guests so that I have a case when I am inevitably accused of treating the group who causes problems 50% of the time from the group who causes problems 2% of the time.<\/p>\n I can tell you this with experience of 1000 guests. When I book a straight, white male, I shout hallelujah. Never a problem. Never ask for a discount. Friendly and courteous. If I had to choose from a foreign country, I would say that French are the meekest, Swedish are the most self-sufficient, Dutch are super easy.<\/p>\n In my experience, 1000 guests, probably 5% black (I mostly keep them at bay by being priced out of their range in Manhattan), here is what the problems are:<\/p>\n 1. Asking for a discount (Israelis are worse, though, and I try to avoid them just as bad).<\/p>\n 2. Some totally unreasonable request: Can I bring 12 friends over, they\u2019ll be out before bed, so they\u2019re not staying as overnight guests (this is in a shared 3-bedroom apartment).<\/p>\n 3. Some sketchy pity story that I know is a set-up for something worse: my credit card was stolen, can I pay you in cash?<\/p>\n 4. Mistakes: Didn\u2019t realize it was a shared apartment. Got the dates wrong. Came home drunk and left pizza in the oven and it caught fire.<\/p>\n 5. Surly. Just surly.<\/p>\n 6. Accusing you of discrimination.<\/p>\n 7. Scams. One kid, looked about 17, shirt-off with a neck tattoo in his profile pic and a confrontational gesture to the camera. He did Instant Book, the only time I requested to cancel an automatic booking. I called him back with the name he gave, but changed the last name and he confirmed that it was his last name. I don\u2019t know what he thought he was going to do when he got into my apartment, but I wasn\u2019t going to let it happen.<\/p>\n You do judge people by their photos and their language. There are some whites (and Israelis) that get the boot right off the back. But Blacks are subject to extensive background checks, and sometimes, when I just don\u2019t have the energy, I decline straight off the bat.<\/p>\n * It is absolute lunacy that a business can\u2019t discriminate however it wants, including race, religion, sex, age, sexual disorder, etc. The fact that the government outlaws it is in violation of natural law. Sheer lunacy, I say.<\/p>\n The 14th A. really needs to be repealed. It has long been used by the left to promote nonsensical discord and misery.<\/p>\n * We are constantly involved in the War on Poverty.<\/p>\n And the War on Racism.<\/p>\n And the War on Inequality.<\/p>\n And the War on Terror.<\/p>\n So we are always in a time of war . So\u2014presto!\u2014the government can now just pass a law and stick a soldier in everyone\u2019s home. To keep us safe, of course.<\/p>\n And don\u2019t think this idea isn\u2019t being bandied about in lefty legal academia right now.<\/p>\n * Univision<\/i> appears to be doing the job that American journalists just won’t do<\/i>. After seeing this guy’s apartment, I now believe he was gay. He has a perfume collection worthy of Liberace<\/i>. <\/p>\n Notice how his concealed carry license is right there on the kitchen counter.<\/p>\n\n