Airbnb was once celebrated as a symbol of the so-called “sharing economy,” a promise of cultural exchange and supplemental income that seemed harmless enough. Yet in cities across the world, the platform has become an accelerant of a housing crisis whose consequences fall almost exclusively on the people who actually live in those cities. The combination of predatory tourism models and the rise of digital nomadism - marketed as a liberating lifestyle - has reshaped urban hous

We need to talk. About that photo. You know the one: the wrinkled grandma sitting on a doorstep, the barefoot kid smiling at your camera, the dusty street with crumbling walls. All dressed up in a dramatic black and white filter and posted on Instagram with a caption like “Humbled by the simplicity of life here.” [LAUGHS IN LATINA]