You aren’t wrong in general, but as another MPLS local I will say that driving culture remains strong here, so picking a fight with Uber/Lyft isn’t going to hurt the average person here as much as it might elsewhere. It remains rare to not have a car here.
Of course, but that’s true of literally any investment you can make in a company, so it’s not super useful. “A new X is useful if I can pay significantly less than it actually costs”.