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What are the economics of this for cabbies? If a guy with a $4000 used car can
enter the marketplace, won't that be better for a lot of these folks than
automatically having to slave for someone else who can afford the $250,000
medalion?
>> Look, imagine going to your job and the boss asks for $150 just before you sit down to work. This is what a cabi faces every day before he/she goes on their shift. Next, you've got 12 long hours behind the wheel. The issue is the terms and conditions that one has to toil under in a city that has told the entry-level person: fuck-off!!! The solidarity that the livery cabbies have shown is impressive, but the real is issue is (once agian) a living wage for those who work under pretty miserable conditions.
Jason