Well yes that’s how time works. Before something happens, the thing hasn’t yet changed…

“Could”

Ooh boy you’re gonna get the “anyone rich is evil give me free stuff because you have more” mob all animated.

But you’re right. They have a contracted rate to do a job (good or bad, fair or not). It makes for a flashy headline to say “look what the downstream revenue was”.

Howdy fellow citizens customer! As a token of our new friendship id like to give you 2 of the giant grasshoppers and 1 albino lizard.