Uber is best understood as a legal entrepreneur. Their skill lies entirely in breaking laws in a way that allows them to make more money than the fines they pa

Uber is best understood as a legal entrepreneur. Their skill lies entirely in breaking laws in a way that allows them to make more money than the fines they pay. In addition to their legal entrepreneurism their next skill lies in hiding externalities. They push costs to everyone else (drivers, riders, cities by massively increasing traffic, everyone who lives in those cities who have to deal with the noise and pollution of the additional traffic, etc) without having to bear any of it themselves.