> “A portion of our trips can be a substitute for public transportation,”
And Koch is trying and succeeding to remove funding from public transit, that makes it easier for uber to replace public transit. So they are effectively working together.
Right but nobody claimed that.
There is no conspiracy or collusion with the Kochs alleged in this article. One tidy aspect of Marxist politics (Jacobin is a socialist magazine) is that it recognizes that wealthy people's actions aren't arranged through some grand and unlikely conspiracy, but rather by a shared material interest that causes them to tend to desire and work toward similar things. Thus the note that, though Uber and the Kochs have many superficial aesthetic differences, including preference of political party, they appear to often work toward the same political ends anyway.
Nobody said anything about Lyft. Uber itself said that they aim to replace public transit. I really don't understand why you would go to such lengths to make up bullshit.