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Perhaps, but so what? Acting morally superior doesn't fix that. You don't change people's habits or desires. You either change the incentives (good luck with that in this particular case), or you... build more housing and make it not a problem that people own multiple homes.

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AirBnBs are hotels. Perhaps they should be regulated as such?

Shame used to work wonders to get people to change their behavior. It’s still does. That’s the thing about morals, included with it is shame.

Good luck with counting on people to have shame and a moral compass (esp the wealthy). There's a ton of bigots on X (Twitter) who just love beating their chest showing they're a bigger biggot than the next. It's the generation of F* you, I've got mine, and not all of us are like that, but too many definitely are.

>It's the generation of F* you, I've got mine

Which generation exactly?

All of them.

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