> Overall, it really just sounds like you are armchair-postulating without any grasp whatsoever on the industry...

No, I was proposing a employee owned version of Lyft. For onboarding screen you use something like "already has 100+ drives with 5+ star rating" or similar.

> You can't really have your cake and eat it too.

True. Rather than paying shareholders and drivers an employee owned company only pays the driver. They are recruiting from the same pool of drivers.