The difficulty would appear to be that there are more people who would like to drive than there are riders who would like to ride at a wage that the drivers wou

The difficulty would appear to be that there are more people who would like to drive than there are riders who would like to ride at a wage that the drivers would prefer. Ride-share drivers already have a way to signal to the market that ride-share wages are too low -- choosing to do something other than drive. It is the absence of an alternative source of income that would make low ride-share wages painful. Once ride-share drivers meet the minimum threshold for driver quality/safety, they are, perhaps unfortunately, a commodity in the eyes of the market, and commodity markets are brutal.