&gt;In any case, they argued that Uber shouldn’t take a cut of the portion of the fare that was classified as a tip.<p>It getting that &quot;am I the only sane one?&quot; feeling from the fact that this even became a court case. There are <i>arbitrarily many</i> fare breakdowns, all observationally equivalent, into &quot;uncut tip&quot;, &quot;driver&#x27;s cut&quot;, and &quot;Uber&#x27;s&quot; cut. You can equally well say that a $10 fare was:<p>A) $2 tip, $8 fare that Uber takes a $2 cut from, or<p>B) No tip, $10 fare that Uber took a $2 cut from.<p>Either way, the driver gets $8 and Uber gets $2. When you have no choice and Uber never itemizes a tip amount, it&#x27;s equally right to say that Uber was taking 25% after a mandatory 25% tip (framing A) or that Uber was taking 20% from an untipped amount (framing B) or anything in between.<p>There is literally no &quot;fact of the matter&quot; as to which portion is a &quot;tip&quot; Uber is taking a cut from, and even if there were, Uber could reframe it in the light of any injunction so that the payment flows and fares are the same.<p>So people basically went to court over whether eggs must be labeled as &quot;six&quot; or a &quot;half dozen&quot;. Wha?