I’ve Stopped Driving Rideshare For Now. Society Is Too Broke For It.

I’ve had to stop driving rideshare before for different reasons. If the pay drops to far, I don’t complain, I stop driving. It’s a business that’s very simple to calculate the profit and loss. I’ve quit because of the season. If it’s just to slow, why bother? Now, I’m quitting because society is coming unhinged.

Most probably don’t see it everyday in so many ways. Rideshare drivers are in the thick of it. When transportation is lost due to repossession or inability to get a loan, they call us. When they have to go to work, but don’t have the money to repair and maintain their car, they use rideshare services. Everything from a divorce to a sick child can create the need for rideshare services. Lately, most of the reasons are negative.

First, the economy is bad and getting much worse. Some pretend not to see it and some really don’t. If you’re working away from the public, you’re probably just seeing some people acting up at the grocery store or maybe you’ve seen a fight at McDonald’s? It’s still early enough in the crash to brush it off as just unusual. Maybe you didn’t catch that the fight was about resources. You didn’t see that the argument in the grocery store was also about resources.

The majority of people haven’t experienced a true hunger pain. Many don’t have the instincts to know that danger is coming as they’ve never really been in danger. When the hunger pains start coming and the resources get scarce, their fear is going to overrule…