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I haven't heard of any of them.

There's a lot of companies and cooperatives from a quick look. Even cities rolling their own. Uber/Lyft is handing an entire market over to a lucky competitor,

Uber and Lyft combined have raised upwards of $20 billion in venture funding and have been operating unprofitably for the last decade and a half. There's a reason the "free market" cannot simply replace them in a day.

I mean, if the holy Free Market is as wonderful as some people say, a new and better alternative will take their place.

Right?

This is a really elementary misunderstanding of free market principles. That theory only holds if the market is actually free.

As an extreme example, if they regulated minimum $1000 per ride. No logical person, free market oriented or not, would expect "alternatives" to take their place.

Could you give an example of such a truly free market so we have a common baseline for a discussion?

> That theory only holds if the market is actually free.

That was my point, since in fact no market is free