An End to Sharing…
Warm holiday wishes to all of you hard-working, trained and licensed professionals ousted from livelihoods by selfish and smugly uncaring new “sharing economists” (May Karma be a bitch to them).
You all deserve better. May the New Year bring a return to form… and rejection of the mess of masses scrambling to be part of something needlessly “disruptive”.
Uber. Airbnb. HotelTonight. Blade.
You others…
Go Home.
I, for one, am tired of cleaning up your messes: Your masses showing up to be told your “hosts” have cancelled reservations*;
your sucking in of payment information, yet rejection of it being allowed to be used;
your “registrations”, “validations”, walls and hurdles, hoops and garters…
Fuck you, Uber.
You’re a stranger to me. Why am I storing my credit card with you?
Who are you, Airbnb, to tell me how to rent my property, and for how much… and to collect my taxes???
Or try and “protect” me? I’ll take my chances, thank you very much… as apparently, millions do anyway using your “service”, exposing themselves to the mercy, whims and *greed of strangers.
Strangers are not “kind”. Yet amazingly, nobody seems. To. Care.
Anyway, in the spirit of the holidays, I’ll stop here.
To my friends and professional colleagues who are working in real estate, hospitality and transportation — trained and licensed to do what you actually do for a living — and your families, dependent on livelihoods which have been impacted, if not robbed entirely from you…
Hang in there!
Adapt.
Because you must. Open up your client base, but always stay true to your service, your existing business, your core clientele which will never defect… and to serving the best and the brightest customers only.
They deserve you, and vice versa. They will come (back).
Happy Holidays
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