Time magazine writer Joel Stein recently was allowed to drop and pick people up in New York city. He did not get a job as a cabbie but signed up on this Internet thing to undercut the wages and opportunities of cab drivers.
Lyft is a new concept where people drive their own cars and sign up for "donations' for their free driving. Obviously this is another thing for twentysomethings to use and save money for themselves and have more bar money. This will hurt real drivers who really do the work that Americans like Stein would never want to do. Joel said it was a fantasy to be a cab driver and i am sure he meant just working one or two days driving yuppies and hot chicks around bars. He has no understanding the difficulty this job involves and the explosion of white collar and media and government work has helped native born Americans like Joel to avoid driving a cab like the Indian migrants he seems to despise so much. Joel Stein in fact most likely advocating the services of LYFT to stick it to the Indian-Pako drivers that make up a large bulk of cab drivers in general. I still want to know how cities can even allow this Lyft to exist if they are not going to get a peice of the action for themselves.This ride share program is without a doubt a new millienum thing to stick it to older immigrant taxi drivers in urban centers that these young folks like Mr Stein so despise.
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