Someone&#x27;s gotta pay. Right now it&#x27;s the drivers paying via not having benefits.<p>We can have a world where (1) costs are transferred to riders, (2) costs are eaten by Lyft, (3) costs are diffused through increased efficiency and utilization of the workforce -- this tends to manifest itself in overworking of employees though (ex: paying overtime rather than hiring more workers, as is often the case in manufacturing)<p>I suppose that we could have a scenario for (3) where the goodwill entices riders to use Lyft more, which increases utilization of drivers (ex: collecting fares for X minutes &#x2F; hour goes to X + N minutes &#x2F; hour) and that can pay for the increased costs.