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We’re in a recession, possibly depression for many going forward. Higher inflation than your great grandparents have witnessed, ask them. People over leveraged all over the place; homes, cars, unsecured and secured debt Etc. Bankruptcy of ungodly numbers coming. If you drive where I do overnights, all the roll backs operating in the area, from affluent to hood communities, Land Rover’s and BMW’s too Kia’s and Hyundai‘s on the back. Immigration?

My area philly/s.Jersey, hustling full time,

I see Uber/Lyft drivers showing up with Tennesse, Ohio, Arizona, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. All possibly rentals? Don’t know? I was doing gas calls in the summer, these people were not calling AAA, they were pinging Uber/Lyfts, for a ride to the nearest station, with their 1 gallon can, from affluent to hood????? Soup kitchen lines everywhere. Homeless everywhere. Homeless shelter pickups. Homeless pickups. Methadone clinic pickups, Strippers demanding more money Or getting out the business. Sally girl n Johnny boy in the back contemplating bankruptcy. ATM machine rides where they stick 10 cards in but get 50 bucks from 1 card. Mortgage brokers writers or whatever they call themselves saying 9 out of 10 people are behind or seriously delinquent. Canceled rides during the trip? Motel or hotel pickups, families live there. On and on……………..

Immigration? Distraction. There is no immigration problem. Desperate people driving for Uber/Lyft, from affluent to hood, yes they are. Only the strong survive and the weak are purged. Capitalism. Drive carefull. Be smart. It’s gonna get worse, we’re all witness to it, look around.
 

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Yes. A great depression 2.0 is coming. Going to be food and fuel shortages for a while.... yet the stock markets seem to be going up even though we are in a recession... the fed doesn't want to see it crash.
The more money that government prints the more it filters back to the markets. Inflation.
I read these boards. Lots of anger towards Uber/Lyft. Justifiable, some not justifiable. I listen to these wannabe wheel men/girls complain about how the fairs were cut in half. Uber/Lyft charging more….whatever. What was expected? These same people don’t realize how the rides they were taking were the most sought after rides. Medium and long haul. Less were n tear, better gas mileage etc. U know how the heard thinks? Easy money right? But Supply/demand, capitalism. These individual driver business models were never sustainable, I don’t care how the numbers were adding up. All the part timers or the government or regular job moonlighters are figuring it out the hard way, possibly to a broke down vehicle or bankruptcy themselves. A statistic. Me I’m like you wanna take that airport ride or city trip or 20 mile ride for 16 dollars, knock yourself out n go for it. They’re taking them too angrily, meanwhile screaming for government regulation and intervention, or immigration, or whatever. Communist. The weak. They’re all over the place, the weak, on here, out there…..I say get a passport and move to North Korea.

final words, don’t hate the players, hate the game.

take it easy but take it
 

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And for all the failed weak…….

your in over your head. I knew what you were thinking, you know “these guys doing this are losers, I can do this.” What u didn’t know is the guys/girls doing this full are running sophisticated business operations that are capital intensive. Maintenance isn’t cheap when you’re doing it yourself. And I’m not talking oil changes. Fuel. Demographic behaviors, the dynamics of everything, on and on.

I’m just a loser wheelman who does pretty good!
 
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