"Bring him over tomorrow, I'll wait for you at the Half Mountain villa..."
Lynch hung up the phone and shook his head, not that he was dissatisfied with Lime.
That's just how the values of Federation Society are—
"I'm worth a lot, so I must show that I'm worth a lot!"
Everyone thinks this way. They don't view it as a betrayal of anyone, including Lime. He doesn't consider it a betrayal of Lynch. He is worth this price, has value, has purpose; he's just expressing it.
This is also the result of capitalists and capitalism transforming society over the years. People follow the rules of the capitalist game, ultimately becoming an indestructible part of it.
Lynch wouldn't, as a result, feel that Lime is unreliable. If he thought that way, then ninety-nine percent of the Federation would be unfit to work for him because ninety-nine percent of them would have this mindset.
