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Depends on the city/locale. In NYC most drivers don’t own their medallions, they drive shifts for someone else’s medallion.

In fact I’ve had a lot of conversations with Uber and taxi drivers who started as taxi drivers, switched to Uber when the bonuses were lucrative, and then some of them switched back because they liked the predictability of a fixed shift and not being ordered around by a machine. Others felt exactly the opposite.