I wonder how many of these drivers are not Americans?
I was at a local fair and was sitting near a guy with feathers and braids ( a member of the local casino tribe-the guy looked as Irish as me-but back to my story) and he was bragging to his friends about how it’s about time the Indian tribes put the “screws to the white man” for all that he’s done to “them” over the years.
By letting them gamble their life savings away, spend all kinds of money at the casinos and end up losing everything as a result, was “awesome payback to the white a**holes who screwed us and stole everything from us”...
He laughed as he talked about the power they have to ruin (help ruin) people’s lives by gambling and taking the “white man’s money”...THEN he started talking about how he collects disability and gets everything paid for by the state....etc etc.
I am SURE this mindset is prevalent with the “foreign” taxi drivers as well.
They live to see us (white Americans) FAIL and really hate this country.
It’s as simple as that.
Taxis, OTH, in cities like NYC are almost mandatory. You either take a taxi or subway or you don't get around. There is a reason many people in NYC don't own cars, and that is because it is a pain in the butt to own one there.
Your analogy(if that is what it is meant to be)between taxis and casinos sucks somewhat.
Most of those drivers are Muslims and most from Pakistan Afghanistan. In NYC few taxi drivers are American born. Maybe 10-20%
Lots of Indian do view the Casinos as revenge on the white man. I don’t patronize them