We need to distinguish between ownership for the sake of consumption and ownership for the sake of decision-making. So long as we transact for the sake of consumption, the market does a credible job. It's when we're talking about ownership for the sake of decision-making that the market fails.
The right to exercise decision-making power is inalienable: it cannot be sold, nor can it be bought. To buy the right to make decisions offends one's sense of justice. Wealth does not confer good judgment. The creator deserves decision-making power, not the buyer.
For a creator to sell to another the right to make decisions over their own creation is an act of betrayal. It sunders the bond between creator and creature that ought to be respected as the expression of covenantal relationship.
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