Dear Public Library System,
We hope you use some of the $12 million in hotel taxes to keep the library open later.
Love,
Airbnb
Dear Airbnb,Another ad, on a similar theme — the equivalent of being rude to a public worker and then yelling, "I PAY YOUR SALARY" — was spotted near the Twitter building on Market.
I'm happy to hear that you paid your taxes this year. I did too! Isn't it awesome? However, I've crunched some numbers and I have some bad news for you. Out of your $12 mil of hotel tax, only 1.4% percent goes to the SF Public Libraries. So that's $168,000. Divided by the 868 library staff, we have $193 per person. Assuming each employee works 5 days per week minus holidays, this is $0.78 per employee per day. Since that's significantly under San Francisco minimum wage ($12.25/hr), I doubt that your hotel tax can keep the libraries open more than a minute or two later.
However, had you donated that $8 million you spent fighting Proposition F directly to the public libraries you love so much, that could have made a bigger difference.
Oh well. Hindsight is 20/20!
Love,
Martha Kenney (San Francisco resident)
Dear @Airbnb These passive-aggressive bus kiosk ads are *not cool* No love, the librarians https://t.co/rdo39E7sdz pic.twitter.com/Lf3TCAYYbw
— jessamyn west (@jessamyn) October 21, 2015
“The intent was to show the hotel tax contribution from our hosts and guests, which is roughly $1 million per month. It was the wrong tone and we apologize to anyone who was offended. These ads are being taken down immediately.”UPDATE #2: Here are pics of some more of the ads. Given its concern for arts education, we're not sure why Airbnb would want to waste its tax dollars on free parking, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Chill billboard, @airbnb pic.twitter.com/4QuRJSaG0N
— jden (@jden415) October 22, 2015
@JesseThorn @Airbnb going after all underpaid public servants pic.twitter.com/6cJWYhqAjY
— Robert J Fangman (@FangmanRob) October 22, 2015
@kimmaicutler @gamoid @ashleymayer pic.twitter.com/Wl7bEtHtIH
— Kyle Huey (@khuey_) October 22, 2015
@juliacarriew @khuey_ @njudah Wonder if they're going to take down these giant billboards above Union Sq. too pic.twitter.com/cr79pdbDgm
— Adam N. Mayer (@AdamNMayer) October 22, 2015
@sarahjeong There's one about planting trees at Masonic & Haight. pic.twitter.com/9n8NDfsCvh
— Chris Arvin (@meinhyperspeed) October 22, 2015
#airbnb ad at 5th St and Cyril Magnin. They're winning at going viral. That's about it. pic.twitter.com/rUftp5nlBy
— Nick Buonfiglio (@nickybseen) October 22, 2015
If you see any others, drop us a line at jwong@sfweekly.com.Tags: airbnb, proposition f, facebook, short term rentals, sharing economy, sfmta, Image, Video
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