I picked up a woman in her 50s or 60s today, tired after an 8-4 shift at a laundromat on Howard Street. She needed a ride over west, and it's nearly 100 degrees with no good public transportation, so she ordered a Lyft.

Imagine having to give up a couple of hours of the wages you earned that day to Lyft. The ride was 12 minutes and 4 miles and I made $6.26. I don't know how much she paid, but I'd bet it was in the area of $20.

That's the type of person taking Lyft and Uber these days: essential employees. As Baldwin said, 'Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." She doesn't have a car so she had to take a Lyft and burn through her wages today.

It's just all so sad. The older I get, the more I hate what this country does to poor people.