"...they trashed my place plus brought danger to my home where I have kids. This reservation was suspicious to me even before it happened as the people even had a new account. However, to maintain my “super host” I didn’t cancel it and that is an extremely dangerous rule to follow by putting everything at risk just to keep perfect scores"
How utterly disturbing - and surreal - that we've got to a point where we'll submissively allow risk and danger into our own homes - even when the warning signs are all there and it goes against our own gut instincts - solely because we've become so subjugated to the control and influence of an imaginary virtual badge (that in reality, has absolutely zero benefits to us), that we're evidently willing to risk our familys' safety and security, for a handful of imaginary gold stars on the internet.
If proof were ever needed of the insidious and injurious nature of Airbnb's superhost system, and the desperate lengths to which hosts are willing to go in order to maintain their illusory and completely worthless superhost status (while further enriching a multi-billion dollar corporation, at our own expense, in the process) - then this is surely it.