For what it's worth I saw a pitch-add for Uber two days ago during the French League 1 match between Lille and Saint-Etienne. I've never seen an add for an Silicon Valley company during an European football match before, and I've been watching this sport for 30+ years.

In quite a few cities the Taxi industry is the only opportunity for immigrants and they're forced to work long hours in rented vehicles for very low wages. That's not good. In other cities the taxi industry requires quite a lot of education and is harder to get into.

Where I live Uber drivers are often taxi drivers, they pull the taxi signs off their cars when they get an Uber pickup, despite the fact that we have a fairly exploitative taxi system they say that they get paid less by Uber.

Ultimately there are dozens of taxi companies and one Uber, those taxi companies range from very large to tiny but none of them can afford to run sustained losses to knock out competitors like Uber.