https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gjba/without-us-uber-and-lyft-would-not-exist-drivers-react-to-shut-down-threats

On Tuesday, app-based drivers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area held a press conference detailing how Uber’s and Lyft’s threats to stop operating in California on Thursday would affect them.

“I’m struggling to really put food on the table for myself because they deny us a minimum wage,” said Jerome Gage, an app-based driver based in Southern California. “It’s an unimaginable scenario that they are responsible for—Uber and Lyft. They created this nightmarish business model that puts drivers on the outer edges of society, scrambling just to make ends meet—they created that. And now they’re threatening to take away the little drivers still have by threatening to leave the state.”