Oh yeah, and how exactly do you imagine this going ?
You're going to ask to see a cartel boss and tell him you have $10B in untraceable money, and you need a small army - you're willing to pay 1,000 men - $100,000 for the next 10 years ? They will most probably start to torture you to know where the money is, before you finish these words.
That's a fun mental exercise btw - imagine you have $1B now - let's say illegal money you need to keep. How do you proceed ?
Pay cash for a field of shit land in the sticks, start purchasing hundreds of totaled cars (also with cash), remove or ruin engine/tires/seats/things of value, place the cars in the field, place the money inside the cars, and throw up a fence with no trespassing signs on it.
How much does one of those soldiers get for ratting him out to whichever country/cartel is willing to pay 0.0001% of that as a finder’s fee or agree not to notice that all of his stuff went missing shortly before capture? If you’re hiring mercenaries willing to stand off law enforcement, what keeps some of them from realizing that they can kill you and get their money all at once?
This is the prepper fallacy: stockpiling riches but not allies makes you a target, not safe. Maybe you can get away with it if you’re an incredibly charismatic cult leader but most people are going to be much better off with friends and family than a pile of Krugerrands and guns.
