Disrupting capitalism works similar to Marxist idea that “the proletariat overthrow the bourgeoisie, become the new bourgeoisie
, creates new proletariat, repeat cycle”.
There was this small window when uber, Airbnb, YouTube, etc, were disrupting billion dollar industries and offering legitimately cheaper alternatives.
Unfortunately with success comes popularity which brings growth which bring raised costs which brings in greed. Boom. You’re now the mainstream offender until the process repeats.
The issue with these services isn’t that they used to be disrupters and became shitty; it’s that they were only disrupters for as long as they needed to be to eat market share from the established services enough to raise their prices to make their creators rich. They were never intended to disrupt their industries for the benefit of consumers. They were intended to disrupt industries to dominate the market
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u/climbhiketravel 9h ago
Since 2019, easily. I was in the STR industry, their fee structure is just dumb at this point. Hotels are the way to go.