And I said: “Money doesn’t protect anybody on its own, Papi.”

And he said, “No.”

And then, after a while: “What does?”

And I have thought about the answer I gave him every day since, because I gave it fast and without preparing it and I think it is the truest thing I have said about any of this.

I said: “About four people paying attention for four seconds each.”

He thought about that for a bit.

And he said, “That is a terrible system.”