This analysis documents a fundamental shift in how transportation services generate and distribute economic value. Traditional taxi structures—despite regulatory capture, medallion speculation, and driver misclassification—retained approximately 60-65% of economic activity within local communities and created ownership pathways (however imperfect) for wealth accumulation. Platform ride-sharing extracts approximately 40% immediately to corporate shareholders

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