You aren't mentioning the people hit by this behaviour - people who use to run cab firms or drive their own cab. Or B&Bs and small hotels. These people are pot

You aren't mentioning the people hit by this behaviour - people who use to run cab firms or drive their own cab. Or B&Bs and small hotels. These people are potentially pushed close to bankruptcy and have to exit the area - because they can't sustain competition against a heavily subsidised competition. That's value being destroyed - not in a creative way by something better, but as a side effect of a financial shell game. Also the state often picks up the cost of that - by supporting those people back into work - and the companies that caused it carefully avoid contributing to that by avoiding taxes - because they never make any money.... I think the Uber example is a very good one - bottom line why the predatory practice? Bottom line if they got self-driving cars working - then it would be transformative and they wouldn't need predatory pricing to grow market share. Why spend all that money on growing the market share, rather than spending on R&D? I can only assume it's all about engineering a financial exit.... And sure you can say buyer/investor beware - but as I pointed out above, the behaviour is costing others through no fault of their own - sometimes dearly.