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Elon Musk has become the first person to reach a net worth of $500bn, bringing the Tesla chief executive halfway to trillionaire status.

Musk’s wealth temporarily crossed the half-trillion mark on Wednesday before retreating to $499bn, according to the Forbes billionaires list.

Musk owns 12% of Tesla, which is worth more than $1.5tn, and his wealth has been boosted this year by surge in the electric carmaker’s share price.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You can't take that with you, though..

Once his current-incarnation/life terminates, & all his unconscious ignoring/denying releases , .. firing his continuum/soul away from what he had been "possessing",

then his continuum's/soul's "reaping of what it had sown" will make his continuum's/soul's future-someones be having hell-lives after hell-lives after hell-lives, for all the exploitation/abuse his privilege stood-on, this-time-'round.. ..until it balances-out, grinding-through soul-unconsciousness, resulting in soul-gnosis/understanding.

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His continuum/soul will learn: that's the whole point of OceanOfAllPhenomena.

That original-awarenesses ( continuums/souls, not mere incarnation/life minds, let-alone the mere-hours-duration SurfaceMinds we narcissistically call "consciousness" )

.. get to have THEIR OWN experiencings, no matter how many lives+deaths that takes for a given continuum/soul, every single one gets to choose its own path, & is forced into experiencing ALL consequences of its indulgings/committings..

( technically, it's much less "personal"/sociopolitical:

a continuum/soul emits meaning into OceanOfAllPhenomena/Universe,

then it is trapped in OceanOfAllPhenomena BY that emitted-meaning, UNTIL it has reabsorbed ALL of the emitted-meanings, & ONLY THEN can it dissolve-out-from soul-containment/recycling/reincarnation. ( yes, universe recycles ALL energies contained within it, including meaning-energy, in spite of the Physicalist-dogma that meaning "isn't real" and "doesn't exist" )

This is why AwakeSoulism, aka "Buddhism", tells us straight-up that replacing lead-chains ( bad-karma ) with gold-chains ( good-karma ) isn't itself enough to free our continuum, one has to have NO karma, in order to become free-from-entrapment/imprisonment/containment.

The only way to have NO karma, is to have no involvement-attachment when committing circumstantial-action: to let go of everything, letting it all be, in equinimity, while committing only right-action, dismantling one's existing emitted-meaning-balance-sheet/karma, see?

Contrast that paradigm/principle, with what Musk, a former Vajrayana ( he counted Tenzin Gyatso, the "Dalai Lama"/Ocean-Guru, as his teacher, years ago ), is enforcing into his own continuum's/soul's Eternity..


The reason I'm explaining this perspective-difference, is simple:

The root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, told people that the 2nd Great Law was "love others as one's own brother", right?

The problem is that that was a dumbed-down version of LivingSpirit's instruction, appropriate to the Animals-&-Tribes-Time men he was talking to..

The CORRECT rendition of LivingSpirit's meaning is:

"love all SOULS as one's own soul's brother, but dispute the children-of-souls/lives/incarnations which are committing wrong-meaning",

which is entirely-more-complex than what would have stuck in the minds of benJoseph's followers ( he railed against their stone-heartedness, repeatedly, in their bible, try reading biblegateway's CJB book of Luke, for examples of that, if you want.. ).

So, considering the 2 perspectives, lives vs souls, simultaneously..

Musk is digging a grave & throwing his own future-someones into that grave, & tamping it down solidly, for sake of his personal dominion, only this time 'round.

Our regimes' accommodating of this behavior proves our regimes are narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy instead-of ForTheBenefitOfAll/ForTheBenefitOfLivingWorld, as they ought be..

But .. he CANNOT escape reaping what he has sown: none can..

Essentially, he's a toddler "eating candy instead of real-food, who doesn't understand that there WON'T BE ANY real-food, in his future", & has sold-out his own future-viability, for sake of momentary-supremacism, now..

This means that I don't need to have much/any emotional ( social/political ) involvement/entanglement with him: he's dug his own Eternity's grave, & G-D's LivingLAW, aka Karma, CAN process/deal-with his continuum/soul..

..but his distorting of our world, for narcissistic-machiavellian highjacking needs effective countering..


Limiting one's commitment to what is effective reduces burnout, right?

Someday a portion of humankind may find the spine to enforce-correctness into our economy..

The book "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann ( https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/screwed-47 ) is strongly recommended, for understanding the REAL economic-rules that evidence showed to be true, historically.

I've only read the beginning of it, but the economic disinformation which has been well-established by "economists" got cleared from my view in seeing the truth in what he was saying..

Combine that excellently-clarifying ebook with https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprinciples.pdf by Taleb ( who wrote the book "Anti-Fragile" ), & THEN one has PROPER economic competence's foundations in one's mind!


All this to say, correct-framing reduces emotional-burnout, our having economic-spine would prune-down oligarchy, effective-competence ( the book & the PDF I've linked-to ) would MASSIVELY empower our populations, all this is preventable, AND there are inevitable-consequences of doing as Musk & Bezos are doing, for their souls' future-someones, that Eternity-scale SANE people wouldn't ever want to be Eternity-scale imprisonned in.


May equinimity release all our lives from economic-oppression's grip, as that psychologist/psychoanalyst who was in a nazi concentration-camp realized: the guards had liberty, but they were not free, because they were entirely-entrained-within ideology..

He had no liberty, but he did have freedom, because he wasn't entrained-in-ideological-meaning..

( sorry I can't remember the man's name: a big name in psychology, Jewish, obviously .. dug his name up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl : )

We need to learn the same lesson ( without the concentration-camp induction, obviously ), to make our creating-our-world become more effective, is all..

That effectiveness of more-universal-framing, is what I'm pushing..


Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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