Guys, you're completely missing the point of his anecdote. Due to the weather, he was unable to get a taxi, he completely lost that option. If fares had been wa

Guys, you're completely missing the point of his anecdote. Due to the weather, he was unable to get a taxi, he completely lost that option. If fares had been way higher then he most likely could have (either because more drivers would want to work, or because less people would be willing to pay those fares, or for a mixture of these two reasons). Thus, an Uber-pricing system would have been beneficial to him - even if he decided not to use it, it would have at least given him an option to use it (what if he didn't have a car and really needed to make that journey). He's not trying to complain about his local companies, or anything like that, he's merely pointing out that this sort of pricing can be beneficial to some people, not just to Uber. That doesn't mean it's the best system overall, it doesn't even mean this anecdote owner thinks it is, it's merely a discussion point.