@acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross The trouble with hiring bodyguards is a lot of emperors have been killed by their own bodyguards. (Modern billionaires don't even have poison tasters.)
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@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross Little need for a poison taster when you own 7 "homes", and have a personal chef (amongst other staff) on standby at each of them. Sneakily […]
@landley they don't??
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That was also the experience of #indiragandhi !
@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross Funny, I'd say paying more taxes is cheaper and more secure than a phalanx of mercenaries.
@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross Yet.
A few dead billionaires later and that job will open up.
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