Hotels are a 'meh'-style business.
They are either expensive or shabby. And they don't match modern lifestyle that much.
Hotels are lame.
Why should one back hotels' profits?
Why should one back SF over-indulgent startupwankers' profits by participating in their closed marketplace (instead of paying for a service employing local workers who are happy to have a job to support their family/drug habit/whatnot)?
They are also misguided: I don't need somebody to sneak into my room each day in order to "clean" it (I'm staying three days, is's not that I produce much dirt during stay) but I would appreciate having a small kitchen and a fridge (not minibar, those are like the stupidest thing ever).
Well, AirBNB supports your local populace directly by letting them rent out their propety to support their family/drug habit/whatnot.
And the fun thing, it's not even a job.
That's the operative thought. I'd rather support Rosaria The Housekeeper and Brent The High School Junior Front Desk Clerk helping at a hotel rather than have everything go to Overextended Hipster Douche who bought more apartment than he can afford and now rents it out to cover his high lifestyle (plus, as we've teased out, the Overlay Country of AirBnB fee/taxes go back to a single company for stays all over the world. Convert your thinking into scorn for exploitative capture, not praise for "omg amazeballs sky high rocket local social mobile viral growth!").
At least we agree sneaky daily room cleaning is bizarre and completely unnecessary.
(and this is hilarious: Why have one long and expensive trip in a year when you can have five short inexpensive ones? -- have you seen my profile?)
Rosaria The Housekeeper consistently votes for scary people every time who then do abominable things. I'll surely try to starve The Housekeeper demographics for cash every time I can.
Or she is an illegal immigrant whose job I do not want to help create.
Overextended Hipster Douche is my Class friend, of course I'll back him.
WRT taxes, it's job of the state to regulate and tax markets. Why don't they do that? Regulate != destroy if they wonder.
P. S. Your travel log is impressive but makes you not representative of general trends. That is, casual travel.
Neither the Rosarias or Hipsters in this country vote much at all, and when they do it's for the same guy.