This scheme was such a profound misunderstanding of probability. You have 100,000 of the billions of dollar bills in circulation, so what? And of course his faulty risk assessment bit him in the end from the liability of having $100,000 in cash lying around.

If he had invested the $110k in the stock market in 1984 he would have been a millionaire at the time of his death in 1999, but crazies and normal people never see that.

https://www.noelwhittaker.com.au/resources/calculators/stock...