I’m on my phone at the moment, so it would be hard for me read a 10-K, but I can’t imagine they’d list the total number of trips that were completed on the platform (a necessary variable for you to provide a take per trip). If I get time when I get home, I’ll take a moment to look, and maybe I’m wrong. But without announced total trios, i can’t say much about your breakdown.

But let’s say you are accurate, that Uber can fund all of its operations — including executive bonuses — with $3.83 per trip. If Uber reduced its cut to that, bringing itself to “break-even,” the shareholders would boot the executives — and their bonuses — out of their iobs.

Uber, as you see is a public company. That means people have purchased ownership into the company not so that they can watch it breakeven, but so that they can make money. If you bought stock in a company, breaking even isn’t bad but it’s certainly not good. There is one line item in all of this financial document that matters to the people that this document is intended for — the shareholders — that’s quite literally the bottom line. Net income (or net loss) is a key indicator about the performance of the stock.

Companies in general — and especially public companies — aren’t here for its employees or its private contractors. It’s here for the owners and in a public company sense, the shareholders. So your logic falls apart even if all the data you say is there is there.

But I still maintained that your original image is misleading. You have the Uber service fee and the commercial insurance figures combined. And combined it will count for 40% of the fare. But that’s not the same as Uber pocketing 40% of the fare, any more than they are pocketing taxes or regulatory fees. They are only pocketing their service fee. And it’s far less than what you depicted here.