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Into that vastness came the impossible: unlimited money. Not a brief windfall but an inexhaustible supply—piles of freshly printed banknotes, gleaming stacks of coins, armored trucks that vomited currency into the sand, and vaults that refilled themselves overnight. The money altered the desert like water alters a dry basin—swift, unanticipated, and irreversible.