I'd not considered it, but you're right. Centralization of any business which absolutely requires physical proximity of the person providing the product and th

I'd not considered it, but you're right. Centralization of any business which absolutely requires physical proximity of the person providing the product and the person receiving it has a pretty poor track record. Sure, there are things like McDonald's, but they will never displace independent restaurants and smaller regional chains and the like. The Internet and software makes solving the problem of distribution trivial which provides an existential threat to any traditional business which does not absolutely require physical proximity of producer and consumer, but Uber isn't acting in that space. They do not seem to be preparing themselves for a future where they are only one among many (even if the biggest)... would they be likely to be able (or willing) to survive with a smaller piece of the pie? I've always thought Ubers big problem was that they built it so much like a traditional company when their only actual value was running some servers and knocking down regulatory hurdles which doomed them to be replaced by a much lighter-weight organization taking only a standard 10% 'finders fee' for hooking up a provider and consumer (a standard older than our money)... but now I'm not sure if they'll make it to the point where they get to see that even.