This is a depressing article about self-commodification, prejudice, and narcissism among users of the AirBnB platform. However, it may have something to offer our ongoing conversations around racist and sexist abuse here on the Fedi. We, too, are a peer network, where many of us may act as hosts or guests at alternating moments. Do we have, or can we create, structural incentives directed specifically at seld-commodification that counteract the slide into abusive behaviours?

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