"When I started working in this profession in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty -one, I was working fifty hours a week at most, and now I cannot bear the work for a hundred and twenty hours ... I am not a slave, and I refuse to be like him." This was the last of the Manhattan taxi driver named Doug Schifter on Facebook before driving his car, on a cold morning in February two thousand and eighteen, in the middle of Manhattan and shoots himself