— Take for instance the concept of extorting profits based on the value of one's own betrayal.
Those devoid of moral constraints can nonchalantly see everything, including themselves, as commodities. What they care about is merely the amount of benefits in their hands. The more degenerate they are, the more they can't see anything beyond profits and the poorer their judgment becomes. Currently, certain officials within Charlemagne could serve perfectly as the exemplars of such foolishness.