Worse - many use the ability to require cleaning up after yourself with the threat of fines if not done at all to always charge guests exorbitant fees even when they clean, claiming impossible standards weren’t met - all to grift and stuff pockets in order to have guests pay their mortgages on homes they otherwise couldn’t afford to play speculative investment games on, and to end up with massive profits to pay themselves for work they largely didn’t do themselves. They’re scamming, they saw how corporate Americans and the ultra wealthy scam workers and wanted their own version of it. They’re pissed they have to become workers themselves.

Yes, in the same way that Uber pretended that their service was a way to find people to carpool with and not a taxi service

yeah, at first. Now they're just hotels that don't want to declare themselves as hotels so they don't have duties.

Originally it was just for people visiting conventions to have a place to put their air mattress, which is where the Air in Airbnb comes from.