The Auctioneer & the Old One

The two essential decisions in every transaction are person and price. 

Person comes first: do we wish to transact with the person, irrespective of the good's ultimate selling price. Of course if the transaction is anonymous, then the decision is about whether (a) we are willing to transact anonymously; and (b) whether we are comfortable with the Auctioneer, who serves as a surrogate for the other party. 

So we have two extremes of relationship: the Auctioneer,  who recognizes no on-going relationship; and the Old One, Who recognizes only relationships that are on-going. As such the Old One is in fact the diametric opposite of the Auctioneer. 

The question is how much of the decision-making about the material world should be made by God's values rather than the Auctioneer's values, and how much of the non-material world's decision-making should be made by the Auctioneer's values rather than the Old One's values. 

When a person is successful in the Auctioneer's realm what happens is it becomes easy for them to acquire things in the marketplace; when a person is successful in the Old One's realm what happens is it becomes easy for them to make and consummate supportive relationships.