I'm just looking through the comments. Hmmmmmm...........the saying goes ''never look a gift horse in the mouth''.
Might Chesky come on the video again and say ''due to the overwhelming global host response, we have decided that we in fact won't ask previous guests to donate'' was he thinking this all along? He is a bright one!
I could do with the money in fact, at the moment, not that I was expecting anything, but I love hosting and I am a good host - I know my value goes beyond the room price. If 200 of my 300 guests donated £5 GBP (or even $5 USD) that's a tidy sum and will keep the wolves from the door.
In life, all good things come to an end, and maybe this is the end for some hosts anyway - last straw and all that.
Looking at the news in the UK yesterday, a martial arts pro had dressed up as Spiderman to entertain self-isolating children as they looked out of their windows, slick moves and cartwheels all the way down the street, a few weeks ago would we have ever dreamed of such a thing happening?