I found Sonder because I was desperate to book a weeklong stay in Manhattan that didn't cost $2k and wasn't in some bedbug infested nightmare in Times Square. I was essentially checking every short term rental on Google Maps when I ran across it.

Once I got in their system, I found rentals everyplace I wanted to go. Getting a very cheap flight and a Sonder apartment has been my recipe for an interesting long weekend every few months ever since.

Sonder doesn't really have staff as such. The locations have maybe one cleaner, who doesn't enter your rental during your stay, and MAYBE one person in the lobby, if your location even has a lobby.

Your rental is an apartment, and like any apartment, you're responsible for cleaning your room and doing your own dishes while you're there. That's not to say that the lobby person couldn't stick a note under a door, but I understand that minimal staffing is one of the reasons Sonder rentals are so affordable.

The busiest Sonder I've ever visited had at most two employees in the building. Most of them, you'll never see an employee at all. I've only seen staff in downtown Chicago and in Manhattan and I've stayed at 14 different locations.

If you were looking for a live person to ask, you probably wouldn't find one.
On the other hand, they do get back to you instantly if you message them about something.

Or the people who made the web site were contractors and there's no one doing maintenance.
I have active (future) reservations and I still haven't gotten any direct notification that there's any operational status from the company yet, even though I've been seeing news about this for the last three days.

I've had a bunch of great stays in Sonder apartments. They're beautifully decorated and extremely affordable. I use them as locations for photo shoots as much as anything else, but getting a 3 bedroom apartment that's a block off Canal Street in New Orleans for $120/night, or a $900/week 2 bedroom apartment rental that's literally next door to the Brooklyn Bridge/City hall subway hub is about as nice as I could ever hope to find.

I've been at the point where Sonder has been my first choice for accommodations about the last three years. I'm actually impacted by this news since I had reservations to stay at Sonder locations in December and again in February.

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Yeah, but you see, from marketing perspective what sounds better? The Line or the Dot or the Pimple?
They had these 3 choices, they made the more sensible one even though it has nothing to do with a good or sensible city outline.

- market is a collection of all people involved, who is better suited to decide on what the value is other than all of the people as a collective vote?

- they are removing the money from the gullible, which may be argued is a better way to redistribute the money (all done willingly even though misguidedly).

- the market has already decided that the parents of heirs were productive enough, that even their heirs can now enjoy the fruits of the labor of the people who made the money.

- dangerous by what measure?

Milton did not do a rigorous analysis -- he was speaking off the cuff. With many more decades of data it is clear that a literal handful of notable failures are offset by hundreds-not-dozens of successes. Libertarians are like (and very often are) the Dunning-Kruger champs, listening to one fringe theory and putting fingers in ears when conflicting data comes to light.

I noticed that you don't cite precedence relevant to _this_ case - which is interesting as you seem to be claiming it exists. If I had to make a bet, I'd be pretty comfortable betting that you can't cite any or else you would have.

Note that people are free to leave this store at any time without a receipt and without purchasing anything, they just can't use any exit they happen to desire to use at any moment in time. There is of course an exception if they conducted themselves in a way that allowed management to invoke shopkeepers' privilege and detain the person for shoplifting - but that's true no matter how many exits are available.

Do you think you've been "kidnapped" when you drive into a parking lot and the barrier closes behind you and you have to proceed to another location to exit rather than simply backing up to leave?

So this is Geniza from between the First and Second Temple? Sorry, just had to ask. :)

So when an elevator door closes on you the building owner has "kidnapped" you?

Did the subway operator "kidnap" you when the doors closed and locked behind you as the subway left the station?

Or when a business locks their entrance doors at closing time and leaves one "exit only" door open for customers leaving the business has "kidnapped" you?

It's not being "kidnapped" to voluntarily walk into a business where you can't exit through the same door you entered through.

As well, since this is a well known corporate store, they almost certainly comply with fire code at least to the extent of having emergency exits which must be unlocked an operable at virtually all times. Yes, they will set off an alarm, but if you're really being "kidnapped" that's an "emergency" and their use is justified.

Amazon wants to sell products, third party companies rely on selling their products via amazon. Now you doesn't want you to buy products through them if it's via another app?

May I ask why you call firing people morally corrupt? Illegal, according to some artificial definitions of what is supposed to be the law, which is a system designed to force behaviors, maybe. But morally corrupt? Please explain, I really do not get it, absolutely don't understand what is morally corrupt about firing people that you don't want to work with because any reasons whatsoever. If it is your business, you should be able to fire anyone, it's not about morality, it is purely, completely a monetary decision. Do you feel morally corrupt for purchasing things on sale rather than overpaying for them?

Have you met seriously religious people. Like the ones currently running the USA?