People love _using_ Airbnb, but don't want an Airbnb rental next to their home. The negative externalities remind me of cars: super useful for me, super annoying to you.
Which bodes well for Airbnb, since the modern business environment is pretty much based on socializing negative externalities while providing value to direct customers. Besides cars, there's also oil, coal, mining, plastics, advertising, agriculture, water rights, and housing development.
This. I don't know why I get so many blank stares when I explain that a great deal of the technocratic New Economy is about reassignment of risk.
I am a considerate guest, trying not to disturb the neighbors. The guests I have in the flat next door tend to be partying cunts.
I've enjoyed using Airbnb, and I think the same about myself, but it's hard to rent a place and only get considerate guests.
I think there is a systematic problem with overrating on airbnb, both of guests and hosts.