six taxi drivers have shared an anonymous fragment of their life from 5 countries, most often United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Philippines. every entry is one person describing the shape of their own days — hours of sleep, money, stress, what they actually feel — to be read and weighed by strangers who never know who they are.
they report an average happiness of 5.3 / 10 and an average stress of 6.5 / 10, they sleep around 5.6 hours a night and have roughly 11 hours of free time per week, the median reported monthly income (across 6 fragments that disclosed one) sits near $2,073 USD-equivalent.
asked whether they would trade lives with taxi drivers, 392 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 46% would trade, 37% would not, 17% are unsure.
the reactions readers most often leave on taxi drivers' fragments are: lonely, meaningful, and depressing. these tags are picked from a fixed list, so the words above carry the weight that strangers actually placed on them, not anything we paraphrased.
the fragments are spread unevenly across the world. by volume, the top countries for taxi drivers in our dataset are: United Kingdom (2 lifes, 51% would trade); Nigeria (1 life, 42% would trade); Philippines (1 life, 31% would trade); Saudi Arabia (1 life, 36% would trade); United Arab Emirates (1 life, 51% would trade).