Sure; the point of paying them a percentage is to get their incentives to roughly align with yours. Short of giving them 100% you should expect that at some poi

Sure; the point of paying them a percentage is to get their incentives to roughly align with yours. Short of giving them 100% you should expect that at some point that breaks down and they will figure the next optimization isn't worth it when it would be to you with your larger share. But that's very different from this situation described here, where the agent serves a different and in fact diametrically opposed master.