This seems strongly to me like a broken window argument. Taken another way, you're paying people that could likely be doing more productive things to sit in a c

This seems strongly to me like a broken window argument. Taken another way, you're paying people that could likely be doing more productive things to sit in a car and burn gasoline. If money draining out of the economy is a major concern, there could just be a tax on AI rideshares (which given the political environment seems quite likely)