>>it won't stop people from paying for rides.

It will stop some people, The number of people that use Uber and Lyft massively exceeds the number of people that used Taxis before them

There is a reason for this, and if your solution is well people will just use taxis" clearly that was not the case.

>>If anything, the value of chocolate will go up and that's perfectly acceptable

I see you are speaking from a position of Wealth Privilege..

I wonder if you would feel the same if that price increase was in something less of luxury good like Wheat or corn where a price increase would be counted in lives not dollars