Zooming out: this kind of Cantillon effect that can be imposed by economic powerhouses on less-powerful economies is a safety hazard in an AI age. Presumably any AI-powered economy would be much stronger than one merely human-powered. If the AI-powered economy uses inflationary currency which it imposes on trade with the human-powered economy, the AI-powered economy will simply dominate and kill off the human-powered economy (and, because money buys everything including basic needs like food, water, shelter, air, will probably kill off many actual humans). There is a reason why consensus N-of-N is so important: it makes even those of great economic power (and we can likely assume that any AI-powered economy WILL be great economically) of equal weight to someone who only has one key in that N-of-N, even if the great economic power can buy out the rest of the keys (whereas a mere k-of-n, a powerful AI needs only buy out k keys). All of us or none of us, sort of thing.