a golden fist bump was also an ‘award’ that Lyft gives from time to time to it’s super special drivers....that and $4.00 will buy me a cup of coffee.

you’re either a poor economist or hilarious prankster.....I’ll go with hilarious and for that, a golden fist bump to you sir.

but you’re getting the old dirty foot hash wet in the driveway.  

If you’re gonna fashion a clearing stick, at least make it a proper hockey stick. This ain’t rocket appliances.

it’s called the J curve

rideshare drivers are not employees - and no amount of picketing or hollering will make that not true.   rideshare drivers are entrepreneurs - small businesses - even if said rideshare drivers are too stupid to own/run a small business and go bankrupt.

that was then, and is now, a lie - the math doesn’t work.  But it did work to keep people distracted from what was actually happening. 

in the beginning, that is what it was supposed to be, and pitched as....but only as a ‘hiding in plain sight’ lie that it wasn’t a taxi service.  The nomenclature stuck, but it was never really true.

Yes - that. It’s how rideshare started. People writing articles about rideshare should be qualified to do so. This article, like most on this topic, is just utterly misinformed garbage and projection. Lyft and Uber alike are charlatans - but I’ll tell you this - me, and thousands of other people scraped up a TON of…

always have the drywall delivered - all the way to the basement for the price of a decent lunch, faster than you can do it yourself, and zero drama.

you can dangle a dozen 2x4's out the window of a Civic for 5 miles home. I’ve done it.

pffft - if that were the case, the dude wouldn’t be hauling crap from the Home Depot, he’d hire a landscaper and any other tradesman he needed.

at 100-120K, yep NP all day.  This is a $4500 car tops.

I was going to say ‘buy the car you really want to drive, and drop 3 grand on a crappy old minivan for the haulin’ but then I remembered that this column is a comedy piece, nothing more.

and spray paint ‘free candy’ on the side just for fun

I owned that truck in 1993-96 - dual fuel tanks, I6 f150 longbed with chrome wheels and mirrors, Argent gray everything else.  Damn nice truck

so much crackpipe

it is

tracy redeeming himself for so so many crappy articles recently.  

Great article, Tom. A few points that help illustrate: