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The Suppression Weight · Pontiac, MI
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Dharma verdict
62–74. Suppressed, not low.
Recommendation: invest. A gap of +43 held down by sourced, addressable conditions. The gap is the return. (Gap +43)
What's holding the 25 down
Industrial-site contamination & food access
+8.4
Deindustrialization & intra-county wealth gap
+9.2
Emergency-manager takeover / suspended local democracy
+10.9
Health outcome gap
+6.6
Credit invisibility / credit-market exclusion
+4.9
Data undercount (low)
+3.4
CC 25 + uplift +43LV 62–74
Current Conditions 25 + sourced suppression +43 = Latent Value 62–74. Click any factor to see the receipt.
Capital × Community Trust
Amber dot = Pontiac, MI · dot size = latent gap (LV − CC) · click any dot to open its report.
Trust is a core axis of this thesis, not a footnote. High capital with low trust is exactly the pattern the Suppression Weight is built to surface — the Dharma Zone is where capital and trust move together.
LATENTlow capital · high trust
Trust is high but capital hasn’t arrived yet — the upside the thesis chases.
DHARMA ZONEhigh capital · high trust
Capital and community trust move together — the healthy target state.
SUPPRESSEDlow capital · low trust
Both capital and trust are held down — the starting condition suppression creates.
EXTRACTIVEhigh capital · low trust
Money is flowing in but the community doesn’t trust it — value is pulled out, not built.
v1 placeholder calibration (rho=0.80, ceiling=100). No headlineBand pinned (no external pitch value supplied); the engine derives the band from mean confidence. quadrant.capital/trust are a qualitative placement, refine with the content owner. `governance` and `credit` share the --risk (#f87171) semantic token since only five semantic colors are defined and this record has six factors; see docs/dharma-lens-v2/places/pontiac-mi.md for the color-reuse note. Pontiac gave the Pontiac car brand its name (GM's Pontiac Motor Division, 1926-2010) and hosted GM Truck & Coach/Truck & Bus Group operations — an outsized industrial/cultural export relative to the capital retained locally after GM's exit — but no sourced, quantifiable royalty/ownership-capture dataset specific to Pontiac was found to price that gap as a standalone Reach/Cultural Signal factor (same conclusion as the Gary, IN precedent's Jackson-family cultural-reach candidate), so it ships as documented context in `econ`/`governance` rather than a scored factor (see docs/dharma-lens-v2/places/pontiac-mi.md kill-rule notes).