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I spoke to a driver and he said he leases car for $2xx a month.

He drives 10+ hours a day and had like 60k trips completed. I'm sure he is doing okay.

That's still just pushing the cost onto someone else, isn't it? City driving for 10 hours a day is going to put 3 or 4 times as many miles on the car as the leasing company estimates. Unless they've accommodated for that in the contract they're going to get a worn out piece of junk at the end that they can't resell.

The trick is if you can do short trips, you can get in under the lease amount of miles even though the hours would be massively high.

It's rare, but it can happen.

What a world where we’re optimizing for to pass the fucking over to someone else, and the major benefactor is harvesting at scale.

Remember Uber’s vehicle lease program?

They brought the fucking over and being fucked over steps in-house, but outsourced the middlemen.

Amazing!

This isn’t happening for any rideshare driver. I can’t imagine a scenario where you drive 8 hours a day and don’t exceed the normal 10-15k mile/yr lease. The average person can barely stay under the 15k.

That's not how leases work. There's a mileage limit in the lease and if it's exceeded, the lessee is the one who gets screwed with fees.

If he's been working 10+ hours a day for years then I don't think he is doing ok. That is a difficult life.

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