How bad people are doing, financially.

My one (male) (Tibetan) coworker had stopped working at the resthome because of problems with the childcare schedule for his new baby and his wife has a better job, but he found new jobs with better hours and now works the desk at some hotel somewhere, and drives rideshare besides in his random spare hours.

So, as soon as I found out about it, I texted him the website for an app that pays you to play certain music while you drive rideshare.  It's like three cents a minute or something like that while a passenger is in your car, but three cents is three cents, and that could be up to like maybe another $1.80 an hour, which can really help with combatting depreciation on your car and can maybe get you more towards a living wage, so why not do it, especially if you have someone in your car anyways.

Imagine that, that's how thin the edge is on making it, where you try to help out someone you know like that, so they can maybe get another buck an hour on average, occasionally.

And, people will do it.