Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder.
The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.
Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
People always say congratulations. When you're a successful bidder it means you're willing to spend more money than anyone else. I'm not sure if that's congratulations or condolences.
... an auction of the treasury.
Describing the 1981 Reagan tax cut:
Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.
