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>>halduj+(OP)
The dynamic is a little different than in most other cities. What's really happening here is that cheap rent is a kind of entitlement in Berlin: rent controls extend across tenants so getting an apartment is really about persuading a landlord to take you rather than bidding at an appropriate price point. AirBnB gets around this by allowing rentals at arbitrary price points. This is true whether it's an owner or a renter doing the leasing, which is very different from other markets in which it's mostly a concern of renters abusing their leases.

> "The Berlin Senate’s ruling nonetheless reflects a general feeling across a city in which homes are getting harder to find: Berliners have had enough and they want their city back."

Translation: There is no pricing mechanism on rents in the city and it is becoming increasingly impossible to find an apartment.

While it's certainly true that AirBnB essentially allows landlords to flout the law, it's worth noting that the adverse effects of price ceilings on supply are the root cause of Berlin's problems and this will not solve the underlying problem of rents being far from equilibrium.

>>jvm+ih
Capitalism always exists, whether you want to admit it or not. You can pretend there are no such things as prices by adding more and more epicycles to your model, or just admit they exist and then (for example) have a welfare state to compensate the non-winners.

>>daniel+1k
American, libertarian, anarchistic capitalism has proved too extreme an overreaction to it's nemesis doppelgänger, communism. Democratic capitalism with sensible safety nets and evironmental regulations isn't as suicidal for us and the planet as what the Koch bros want. Furthermore, with deep learning and automation of most jobs (human-piloted transport, white-collar analyst jobs) will create millions upon millions of people without jobs or retrainable prospects while remaining, ultraefficient and uberprofitable businesses hoard cash while bleeding out the middle class, the engine of the economy. Lots of idle, unemployed, broke people is a recipe for unrest and civil strife.

>>dispos+Ht
In the short run, people should have social protection. The first generations are going to be jobless and penniless otherwise.

But in the long run people are not going to just sit around collecting UBI. They can still work, but on other things. Society will develop new areas of interest in which it will invest the available money. The focus will fall on science, sports, culture and social projects, which are going to keep everyone busy and at the same time advance us even further.

As society changes, education will have to adapt to the new requirements. There will still be jobs, but in domains that perhaps now are not even imagined.