the reasons that ride-sharing platforms were fun to think about in contrast to other kinds of platforms that I find interesting is because they actually directly set the transaction price so that like that's why this is an interesting question you know if you come compare that with something like let's say op work or Airbnb they have a lot of influence on what the transaction prices might be like but they don't actually directly set them okay so here when I use the word pricing I actually mean the platform is setting the