Via Reason comes this exercise in badfun: to summarize, a bunch of tenants informed on their landlord to the State (in this case, the LA city housing department) because they thought that the landlord was letting one of the other tenants list her space on the short-term rental site Airbnb. The State agreed, and told the landlord to stop abetting weekend rentals. And then the State told the tenants who complained that they themselves were in illegally divided apartments, and that the tenants would have to move somewhere else forthwith.
Moral of the story: Keep yer damn traps shut next time, ya idjits.
Easy way to get rid of a bunch of complainers.
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*sighs, rubs face, resettles glasses*
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Folks, you are dependents of the king; you made one of the King’s ministers have to do something he was not expecting to do. The King rarely knows anything other than what his ministers tell him. You broke that cycle.
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The King isn’t looking right now; sucks to be you.
As they’re fond of saying at Samizdata, “The State is not your friend”.
Yeh. Yeah, this.
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I keep seeing the argument that we should put government-David on a heavy steroid diet so he can better match corporate-Goliath .. and I keep thinking “what makes you think you can get them to fight each other?”
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Mew
“Keep yer damn traps shut next time, ya idjits.”
Elsewhere I was told this was victim-blaming.
I wouldn’t have put it that bluntly, but I guess it kind of is, because if they hadn’t gone running to Mommy Government to save them from the nasty short-termers[1], Mommy wouldn’t have noticed the problem with their building.
[1] Now, maybe the AirBnB renters were troublesome. One tenant complained about them knocking her door. I dunno, I might’ve put a sign on my door saying “AirBnB people go upstairs and knock on #203” or whatever. Certainly whoever was doing the rentals should have done that.