100M on 52 billion revenue is 0.2%. Net income of 1.5 billion is about 3% of revenue.

> If someone could run and popularize an open ride platform, that quarter billion would go somewhere else, maybe to the drivers, maybe to the riders.

So if you found an equally effective management team that worked for free, you would save the customer about 1% at checkout. That is a tiny benefit, even granting the massive assumption.

Those numbers suggest a competitive environment with small profits, not an abusive monoply exploiting it's position.