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by idoescompooters 1042 days ago
I can speculate one reason Airbnb hasn't/refuses to solve this issue is similar to the reason YouTube got rid of the dislike button. It has the potential to decrease views, and in this case, decrease bookings if things are not good enough.
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Its telling that all the advertising in the media you see of the prototypical digital nomad is someone at a cafe or in a hammock with a laptop, versus someone with three monitors and a herman miller chair.
I wonder how much this feeds into the negative image many people have of "working remotely" as barely working. It might fall into a pattern where framing something as nicer than it is makes it less likely that we as a society continue to permit the thing. A similar case would be all new housing being positioned by developers as "luxury housing".