All the time, and I get plenty of negative responses.
But what I think is far more damning is the median driver’s tenure. I can’t recall a driver in years that had been driving for more than six months, and even finding someone who’s hit three months is rare (in SF).
It's not like it's a desirable occupation. It's unskilled work. What you see is people using it as a temporary way to make money between other jobs. Not sure why that's damning.
Taxi-driving is a full-time job with tons of people who've been doing it for years. Is taxi-driving a desirable occupation for skilled workers? Lyft and Uber aren't keeping drivers for a straightforward reason: they're a comparably worse value proposition than being a taxi driver used to be.
I'm not saying there aren't advantages to the new system. There certainly are. But the drivers are bearing the brunt of the downsides.
But what I think is far more damning is the median driver’s tenure. I can’t recall a driver in years that had been driving for more than six months, and even finding someone who’s hit three months is rare (in SF).