The corollary is that there are no morals once the stakes are in the $ billions, let alone hundreds of billions.

This isn't even about a single person or personality. Very few people in such position could stand fast by their moral code. In any case, an environment that favors profit above everything will naturally select for individuals who are unencumbered by such hindrances.

There might've been 100s of Altmans and Amodeis who had a strong moral code but we don't know about them because they dropped out of the "race" because of said moral hurdles.

Copyright law is an artificial legal construct, not a moral code.

I think appropriate attribution is a moral code, but I am not able to attribute every idea I have to all those who helped me develop the general intelligence that I use to develop such ideas.

> an environment that favors profit above everything will naturally select for individuals who are unencumbered by such hindrances.

Exactly. Dairy farms optimise for milk production so favour cows that produce the most milk.

The market economy optimises for profit so favours those most willing/able to generate it. Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Andreesen and co are products of the system.

> The corollary is that there are no morals once the stakes are in the $ billions, let alone hundreds of billions.

terrifying