efforts towards hygiene and pollution controls required regulation and taxation, and thus ran headlong into business and its ideology of liberal individualism.

Even successful cleanliness programs often increased inequality. Gilded Age Chicago meatpackers, for instance, whose offal had made their neighborhoods and the Chicago River a Stygian hell of disease, threatened to leave the city if they were required to clean up. A hygiene program had to be shouldered by the whole city, and thus "packers gained wealth; most other Chicago residents lost it."

And sure enough, under Republican rule the Environmental Protection Agency has been turned against its stated purpose. Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued regulations allowing for the use of a pesticide the agency's own research shows causes brain damage in children, suspended new clean water regulations,him that Uber was only available in Seattle and Spokane, but Mike continued to contact them every month and finally, they caved. All he needed to do was fill out some paperwork and he could get started.

He sent the company a photocopy of his driver’s license, insurance and registration. He brought his car to the mechanic and got his headlights, brake lights and seat belts checked.

One day in early August, after he was cleared to drive, Mike opened up the app and drove into town, unsure of what would happen next. He was driving toward Home Depot when he got his first request for a ride and he’s been giving rides ever since.

“The first month was about eight rides a night, and now I do probably about fifteen