Uber "just moves money around and takes a cut", same with AirBNB, and so any other marketplace.
That's slowly starting to happen in the financial industry, with robo-advisors and cheap index funds taking trillions of dollars out of the hands of overpaid Wall Street firms, but that process takes time. Hopefully we'll start to see the same thing with Lyft and Sidecar eating into Uber's nonsensical valuations.