Well, while ~$9/hr is a lot better than ~$4, it's still well in the category of squeezing drivers, IMO. In fact, if your goal is to squeeze your drivers, you a

Well, while ~$9/hr is a lot better than ~$4, it's still well in the category of squeezing drivers, IMO. In fact, if your goal is to squeeze your drivers, you actually don't want to squeeze too hard because soon you'll have no one left to squeeze. $9/hr is perhaps a level a number of people can (barely) subsist at (at least for a while) while $4/hr may be untenable for almost everyone. (I agree, though, that drivers aren't like captive servants, as some seem to assume.)