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21 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 3 Aug \ on: Valencia Joins Barcelona in Crackdown on Airbnb-Style Rentals econ

Lodging is a commercial use. It doesn't belong in residential neighborhoods.

Decides who? How about private property rights?

Would you let your neighbors replace their homes with a gas station on one side and a fast food drive thru on the other? If not, how about your neighbors private property rights?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @JesseJames 4 Aug

There are zoning laws for that, just saying...

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Aug

Yep, and lodging is also commercial use hence does not belong in residential zones.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @TomK OP 3 Aug

This is a nonsense of a comparison and You know it.

How about I forbid P2P transactions outside the USD?

38 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 3 Aug

It's not a nonsense comparison. It's a question about whether you believe property rights grant the right to create arbitrary negative externalities or not. Lodging has negative externalities, like other commercial use properties, even if you've never lived next to it to experience it.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 3 Aug

Do You know the concept of internalization of external effects by garanties of property rights?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Aug

Yes, which I agree, as a libertarian, is a theoretical solution to these problems. Only, our judicial systems don’t work so we end up legislating instead, and the only contracts the government likes to enforce are its own.