HeyItsMau

I got my MBA in sustainable business and focused a lot of my work on the sharing economy. I found it to be a shame that companies like AirBnB and Uber have a fundamentally sustainable business models (on paper, it's to utilize unused resources), but have devolved into traditional mindsets of short-term profits. Particularly, I feel both companies have an arrogance about them when it comes to playing with regulations. I think OP's third findings address this - CEO Chesky hides behind the guise of neo-liberalism and innovation to circumvent what's best for society and ultimately, their own sustainability.

A pattern that I noticed between those two companies is arrogant leadership. It's reductive to say, but for the sake of brevity, both CEO's strike me as Silicon Valley fratboys. I think the curtain has fallen around Uber a bit, given all of their problems with sexism that I believe comes from a culture straight from the top.

Anyways, back to AirBnB's point, I think they have been repeatedly making the mistake of ignoring requests to sit-down with governments to talk about regulations. They have a good chance to pave their own destiny - one that would inevitably mean regulations that cause less profits in the short-term, but ultimately better in the long-term. I have no doubt that it's going to take a few more highly-publicized disaster stories before politicians decide to really crack-down on them. Going back to the Uber comparisons ...it has already happened to them. They are banned from a few major cities because they didn't bother to sit down at the table with the government before it was too late. AirBnB can be proactive about protecting themselves now, but they choose not to. Good though. I'm waiting for a better behaving replacement.

I don't think there's any shame involved for a Chinese person to enjoy Americanized Chinese food unless you're a snob who unnecessarily equivalates authenticity with enjoyment.

Because in real-life, which the Wire always strives to emulate, an individual's sexual preferences doesn't dictate their entire identity. Showing that Rawls is gay while simultaneously not pandering to that character trait subverts audiences expectations of what gay characters should act like in media.

A dumb show might have made him flamboyant. A show that thinks it's being smart might show him overcompensating with masculinity. A show like the Wire makes no presumptions of how his sexuality defines how we primarily see him in the precinct.

Singapore noodles and spring rolls are actually one of the few items on a western menu that closesly resembles their authentic counterparts. I can gurantee every real Cantonese restaurant you go to will sell Singapore noodles.

Also, at least in NYC, white people at Yum Cha usually means foodies and the cart ladies know this so if anything, they might be sure to specifically roll past with chicken feet or tripe.

My dad used to work in take-outs. I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but he actually made us kids promise to never order Egg Foo Young because in all of his many kitchen experiences, he said the gravy is made out of leftover, unwanted grease.

He was so disgusted about it that like, this was an actual rule in the family. Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't order Egg Foo Young.