As a thought experiment, assuming the transit system was a non-corrupt non-profit, a rich dude paying $100 for a ticket means a heck of a lot of poor people will continue to pay $2.25 today instead of having to pay $2.50. Or insert similar argument. Maybe instead it would mean some employee gets health insurance this month, etc.

In the real world of course, corruption would eat all $100 and then the poor would be stuck paying $2.75 once budgets get used to $100 tickets from rich dudes.