0. Death

"The legend of Midas - it's not about greed. It's about stupidity. But the king's trouble isn't just that, by trying to obtain the coveted touch, he doomed himself to starvation. His mistake is much deeper:

By turning everything around him into gold, Midas wouldn't have become richer, in fact, he would have only destroyed the very essence of wealth, reducing the precious metal to the level of ordinary dirt. His "golden gift" is not a blessing, but a curse, exposing his intellectual poverty. But what if we look at it from a different perspective? What if this ability fell into the hands of a more astute mind? This is what I have to find out, and perhaps I will manage to correct all his failures."