You pay for the bus upfront. You pay for the taxi after. Used to know someone who survived Germany in the early 1920s.Nocturnal’s answer is better.You have no idea what the term hyperinflation means, when you write like that. In hyperinflationary times, it is cheaper to take a taxi than it is a street bus. 99 TeslaPoints for the first to explain why, but @jbcarioca cannot play.