I'll give you as many minutes as you want to hear me explain how I continued on as a full-time driver because it allowed me to maximize my time with my child during her formative years. I have only maintained my exploitation knowing that I have a fall back plan, and because some things in life have value that can not be monetized, like absolute flexibility to provide my daughter with a stay at home parent and a personal educator while she prepared for school.

I was a public school teacher in the inner city for many years and endured other forms of exploitation by the public sector for my students, quite frankly because I knew that I was never in the position that they were. No matter how poorly teachers were treated or compensated, students were clearly valued less.

We all have our reasons for living our life how we live it and it is narrow-minded for you to assume that because you had the flexibility to change jobs or lifestyles, that someone else does. Finally, when the consumer continues to feed an industry and then creates expectations for paying less for a product, as we all did when we started ordering Ubers and Lyfts instead of taxis, then we are also in a small way complicit in the exploitation. So maybe you weren't exploited by Uber or Lyft, but you might have done some of the exploiting, but I don't blame you. I am a full-time driver and no matter what service I am using, I have to use the cheapest possible because I am paid unjust wages.