Like many other owner-drivers, Nicanor Ochisor traded daily 12-hour shifts with his wife Helen for nearly three decades to pay off the pricey monthly costs of their investment in a medallion. But as the value of the medallion dropped, the Ochisors struggled to make their monthly payments, while spending long stretches of their shift cruising unsuccessfully for fares.

In March, the mounting debts and economic insecurity pushed Nicanor to kill himself in his garage in Maspeth, Queens.

Oh, come on. You're going to blame Uber for this man's death instead of the medallion system, which was intentionally designed to restrict competition and increase the income of medallion holders, at the expense of the general public?