If you want to know what privilege is, reread what you just wrote. I would gladly walk up and down Connecticut Street every day to be able to live in Potrero Hill. I’d gleefully wait thirty minutes for a cab if I could afford to live in downtown San Francisco. Of course, if I were fortunate enough to live in the city, I wouldn’t have to do either of those things. Because being an city dweller requires being savvy. That’s the point of my article.

Almost every cab company is located on one side of Potrero Hill. Hundreds of cabs drive over De Haro, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania every day to get to Caltrain. I drive over Potrero Hill when I begin each shift. Why would I not want a ride to start my day? You inability to get a cab says more about you than the taxi industry.

And downtown has dozens of cab stands in front of most hotels and other establishments. Again, your cluelessness is not a commentary on the sad state of the taxi industry. It’s just you being dumb.

Brother, you need to check your privilege and massive sense of entitlement. Learn how to live in a city before you think you need to change it. The fact is, you don’t deserve to have a cab just because you want one. That’s not how the world works. I wasn’t taught that as a child. I’m willing to be that you were.

Lyft and Uber are breaking the law. That’s not making change, that’s being a criminal. That’s being a big baby and crying, I WANT WHAT I WANT AND I WANT IT NOW!!!!

You don’t deserve shit.

Yes, the system is fucked up, but I’d rather be a responsible citizen than a scofflaw. And that’s why I stopped driving for Uber and Lyft and went to taxi.

Tell me, how has Lyft improved the traffic situation in San Francisco? By flooding the streets with thousands of inexperiened drivers who double park at will in the busiest corridors and create some of the worst congestion this city has ever seen?

You can trot your tired cliches about taxis and your bullshit party line to somebody who is as clueless as you, but that ain’t me, Jack.