yea true... i guess thats perks of USA capitalism? the same thing is much worse with pharmacies in USA because no country in the world has as insane medicine prices since USA does not negotiate a set price with the companies but just lets capitalistic monopolies controll the market... but also means there might be some future blockchain uber that would comepletely decentralize it and make UBER a fling from the past... though i dont see how you could decentralize uber completely as you would always need someone to allocate funding towards self driving cars or whatever and get the human labor cost out of the equation...