The guards were never chosen for their strength. Strength could be bribed. They were built without ambition, without envy, without the ability to imagine a different master. Beside each sat a hunting dog engineered to recognize fear before it became action. There is an old belief among the unimaginably wealthy that fortunes do not create power. They attract those who wish to take it. Every billionaire eventually learns the same lesson: the higher the tower, the fewer people you can trust to guard its door. Every fortune eventually reaches a number that can no longer protect itself. Beyond that point, wealth begins hiring loyalty instead of buying comfort. The richest men in history all discovered the same truth as money survives only as long as someone is willing to stand between it and the rest of the world.