All good points. I used to drive a taxi - I fell into it when I needed a job but was overqualified for just about everything. I learned a lot from my passenger

All good points. I used to drive a taxi - I fell into it when I needed a job but was overqualified for just about everything. I learned a lot from my passengers. The taxi company I used to drive for has adapted. I think they'll survive until uber runs out of money, simply because fleets of similar vehicles are cheaper to maintain. A Prius will last 400,000 miles, with rebuilt batteries and cheap parts from a boneyard (retired/wrecked vehicles). The taxi company now leases unbranded cars that can be used by drivers for any of the app-based services. The company's contracts pay better than non-surge uber fares, which motivates the drivers to take care of the company's contracts too. > Point is, the gig economy is here because almost every strata of people below "upper-middle-class" have been getting slowly screwed for decades. I call the phenomenon "economic cancer".