[michaelone]

I met a really interesting Lyft driver who drives 2 hours to San Francisco every weekend to drive 3 days of 12 hour shifts and then returns to her hometown to be a stay-at-home mom for the rest of the week days. Her husband also drives for Lyft part time and according to her, together they're making $100k more per year than they used to be and for the first time not living paycheck to paycheck anymore. It's inspiring stuff, but at the same time you have to consider that these people get no benefits, even if they were to drive full time, and have to front the costs of insurance, gas, and hotels in San Francisco to do what they're doing (because Uber etc. don't have enough volume in their small town). Providing people the opportunity to change their own lives like this just by working hard on their own schedule is huge, but also sounds like an opportunity for another startup (freebie!) to figure out how you provide these people with all the same benefits that they still need and make that as easy and affordable as it was when a company was providing it.