it would be great if this were the case. unfortunately, Uber has been documented to practice individual price discrimination at a massive scale, using factors like if you’re in a low-income vs high-income neighborhood, individual rider “price sensitivity”, etc, in addition to market conditions (surge pricing), and as a result they have netted billions in profit [1]. i would guess this is why Uber AI researchers are paid so much.

[1] https://len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-became-a-cash-genera...