Even if everyone is stupendously rich by today’s terms, there might be a tangible difference between having a trillion dollars in your bank account and having a quadrillion dollars in your bank account. Maybe I want my own galaxy in which I alone have the rights to build Dyson spheres and that is out of the price range of your average joe with a trillion-dollar net wealth.
Are you assuming this holds true even in some scenario where a single company or government has total, decisive control over the future of civilization? Will the entity in power really still prioritize such exchanges if they could plausibly just take it directly from you (since they are not accountable to a higher power)?
Or are you assuming that such a Singleton is unlikely to exist? (Or, is the focus on the possibility that such a Singleton does not exist)
Are you assuming this holds true even in some scenario where a single company or government has total, decisive control over the future of civilization? Will the entity in power really still prioritize such exchanges if they could plausibly just take it directly from you (since they are not accountable to a higher power)?
Or are you assuming that such a Singleton is unlikely to exist? (Or, is the focus on the possibility that such a Singleton does not exist)