With the convenient side effect that you have to cancel some megacontract if performance is not what you expect. With everything else it's: "hey, your contract

With the convenient side effect that you have to cancel some megacontract if performance is not what you expect. With everything else it's: "hey, your contract has run out after x years, reapply and make sure you do it better". Alphabet seems more like: "well, you have to pay us for our expenses 20 years back. you know, you owe us. do you really want to break the contract". It's all about power and making a dent into public law which today is basically quite good at preventing Manchester-like capitalism (at least in the developed world, even post-Reagan)