Remember that Trump is a fake billionaire, and he knows it. So he craves to be around real billionaires because it makes his fantasy feel more real. And what could be more flattering to his ego than being friends with "the world's richest man".
It's all about the narcissistic supply.
Trump is cosplaying his ultimate ego fantasy of wealth, power, and fame.

You can read anecdotes about Musk from people like Kara Swisher. She was his friend before he turned on her and called her evil for daring to criticize his immaturity.
She says he's kinda lonely and miserable in his private life.
Frankly I'm sick of hearing about these Tech Bros. They are all corrupt and shallow as hell. Success and power addicts who understand nothing of what life is really about.

It's not primarily physical pain. It is the emotional pain of the ego struggling and dying.

Why do dreams feel real until you wake up?
MIND loves to imagine realities. That's what MIND do.
Dreams ARE real. It's just that you can wake up from them.

1) The #1 goal should be truth and accuracy of your perception.
2) Being negative and cynical is then not truthful nor accurate.
3) Hopeful fantasy is also untruthful. So that's out.
4) True optimism comes not from waiting for good things to fall upon you, but from knowing that if you follow timeless principles you can work your way towards good things by creating them for yourself.
5) It is true that through hard work and creativity you can create great things for yourself and the mankind.
6) There is always a chance bad things will fall upon you. That's just life. But you have some control over how you handle it and you can turn many bad things into good things through hard work, intelligence, and creativity.

Doing self-help comes with its own burden. Self-help has a cost. Which is why most people don't do it and remain common fools.
You want to know what happens when you don't do self-help? Look at Elon Musk. He's hyper-successful externally, but he's a man-child internally. That's why we take on the burden of self-help.
It's not really self-help, it's the philosopher's life. The ancient Greek philosophers lived in pursuit of The Life Of Virtue, The Good Life. This requires cultivation of character. Which requires deep inner work, which is a burden. They took on this burden because otherwise you will become a corrupt, animal-like man who lives for nothing more than sex, money, power, fame, and pleasure. This is the life of a beast.
Religion and philosophy is about elevating oneself towards the Good, towards God, towards Truth, towards Love.
Those who do not do the work remain children.
There are many different ways of doing the work. But no one is forcing you to do the work. You can choose to remain a child.

Vote for the highest stage running who has a decent chance of winning.
That's the principle.
Do not vote for people who have no chance of winning even if they are Jesus. Jesus is never going to win an election so don't even consider that option.

You don't have to develop at all if you don't want to.
But if you follow Actualized.org then it's assumed that you care about developing. And if you are going to undertake the goal of developing yourself to high stages, that will involve emotional labor and suffering. It certainly won't be easy or automatic.
Can you be happy without developing at all? That's an interesting question. It much depends on your psyche. Some psyches can be happy living unconsciously, others cannot.
Could you just live a happy life of career, family, sex, success, travel, etc. and never think about development? Maybe. But you might also get stuck and unhappy doing that.
Realistically, your life will stall out at some point and you will seek for solutions. Those solutions will involve development, which will involve work and suffering.
It's like if you wanted to start a business. Starting a business involves suffering more so than if you didn't. Doing difficult things is difficult. There's no way around that other than not doing anything difficult. Which will ironically create its own kind of suffering.
As the Buddha wisely said, life is suffering.
This work is not about me or anyone telling what is good. It's about you recognizing the Good using your own conscious intelligence. The highest intelligence in you sees the Good, at least to some degree. The more development work you do, the clearer you will see the Good.
Do you have to be good? Nope. You can be a psychopath. But you won't be happy with those results.
The reason for being good is not because you're told but because your intelligence recognizes that it is objectively the best way to live. Living badly is not intelligent.

I love the idea of collective ownership of automated labor.
Unfortunately this feels like a pipe dream because robots and factories are super expensive and the capitalists who pay for them will never give up that property to the public without a bloody Marxist revolution.
The problem with Marxism has always been that factories are expensive and some private people had to pay for their development. Publicizing private property is basically like theft, which is why elites will oppose it furiously.
I think it's just easier to tax the rich.
There is no getting around the problem of elite resistence to redistrubution of wealth because they are all addicted to hoarding money and power.

Right. Which is why what I said doesn't make sense to you. That's not an accident.
No. That's not what I'm talking about.
I've done a lot of socialization. And what I eventually realized is that none of it truly satisfies me. Even when I go really deep with someone, it's still too shallow.
What I'm talking about is a mind that is not satisfied by socializing because it is fundamentally too shallow no matter how good you do it.
Understanding such a mind will be challenging for most humans because they don't have it. Which is the whole point of why I made my blog post. The blog post is actually very profound. The profundity of it might take someone two decades to appreciate. Maybe never if you don't have the right kind of mind.
Depth of mind cannot be about competition, because competition is shallow. There is no satisfaction in beating another human. This satisfaction is for shallow minds.

Introversion is the avoidance of socialization because it is found vapid and unsatisfying relative to the effort and hassle required.
Women find humans beings more interesting than men do, because their survival requires that. Men are not so interested in humans but more interested in things. So that is also an overlooked factor.

The most important insight I had about that, is that when you run a public company you are effectively taking on the endless survival attachment. You're not just attached to the survival of all your employees, but all the stockholders. This effectively makes it impossible to ever break free from survival because you have infinite mouths to feed endlessly.
In a small private company you can transcend survival by earning enough to feed a small number of mouths. But with a public company this is impossible because all your investors demand endless increasing growth. Which is equivalent to endless pressure to do evil. No amount of evil is ever enough in such a system.
So the #1 thing you must do to avoid evil is not make your business publicly traded.

Ambition is just a core personality trait. In that case it doesn't have any satisfaction or end. Ambition means you want the best, the biggest, the most significant, the perfect. You want to be the best in the world at something so its own sake. Like, you want to be best and biggest bank robber in the world.
Of course ambition can also be fueled by various negative problems in the psyche like not receiving enough love, feeling fundamentally inadequate or unlovable, needing endless narcissistic supply, getting high on fame or power, megalomania, needing a sense of meaning to avoid facing the meaningless of life and your own death, childhood trauma, etc.
Or, you could just be driven to do the most good in the world because you want to live the best life possible. And doing the most good requires having lots of power, wealth, and influence.
If you really wanted to improve the world, you would earn billions and then use it to fund philanthropic projects.

1) Most people who have deep understanding of God had help from the right genetics.
2) Hegel was enrolled in religious training. He was basically a quasi mystic. He did it through Christianity from what I gather. Hardcore serious Christians can do such things, especially with the right genetic foundation.
Don't forget, there's also a rich history of theology. You can learn serious truth from theology if you pick the right sources. I bet Hegel studied serious Christian theology.
It's like you're asking, Why did Newton discover calculus or Einstien E=mc2? Obviously they were freakishly intelligent, unique minds.

It is not a hodge-podge of all emotions.
There is an experience of metaphysical Unity. That's what is actually happening. And then your mind has an emotional response to that experience, which feels like a very powerful human love. Like the love you might have for your child.
It's like if you saw an alien stalking you at night. You would react with the emotion of terror. But the alien itself is not an emotion. The alien is more real than your emotional reaction to it.
Emotion is not part of the fabric of reality. But Love is, because Love is not an emotion. Love is a deeper thing. Love is a function of Consciousness which transcends emotion but often mixes with the emotion that humans call love. Since Love is everything it manifests itself in many ways which are difficult to see without enough intelligence and consciousness. You can see when someone loves you. But you cannot see that God loves you because your mind is very rigid and disconnected. God's love is so subtle that you'd have to elevate yourself to God's level to recognize it. God's love must be metaphysical or it would not be Infinite and highest. God's love has to be much deeper than an emotion because emotions are just contingent temporary things. God's love has to be absolute. Because it's absolute it's hard for you to recognize it.

That's easily solved by etching your seed key on a steel plate.
It's called a Cold Wallet:
https://amzn.to/4kKWx5S
Paying 5% to trade gold is miserable.

You can't control suffering directly.
The only solution besides living properly is to observe it mindfully and let go trying to stop it.
Drop the fantasy that you will become immune to feeling pain. Pain comes and you just feel it.
I don't know him enough to say.

Contemplation alone is very unlikely to cause an awakening. A change in state is needed. Change in state is created by either days of nonstop meditation or psychedelics.
Depends on how you wanna define your terms. There is much to comprehend about Consciousness. Way more than nondual people say. Do not be fooled by the simpleton nondualists.

I didn't say I made money in stocks. I meant I started my biz.
Obviously the lesson is to buy when everyone else is drowning in their own blood.
The best time to buy stocks in 1 year into a solid bloodly crash when hope is 0%. You must do exactly the opposite of what everyone is doing. If fools are buying, you sell. If fools are selling, you buy.
You gauge the market by what the fools are into, and do the opposite.

There is no space. There is only Consciousness. Consciousness is infinitely divisible and has infinite resolution.
Scientists are stupid.

Not crazy, just a matter of lifestyle.
Some people like a carrot stuck in their ass and some don't.
The key is to get very clear about which type you are.
Also, remember, life is long and you will go through phases. Social phases, secluded phases.

@Daniel Balan I have a YT playlist called Epistemology which contains many of my epistemology related videos.
But I teach about epistemology all across my work.
And I am always creating more new epistemology videos.
My post-modernism series is one example. My deconstructing science is another.
If you want to develop an epistemic foundation you need to adopt an attitude of skepticism towards all human knowledge and do your own private inquiry into how anything at all could be known? Only by doing this inquiry will you see how truthful knowing is generated.
Do not confuse epistemic inquiry with self-inquiry.

Yes, all that coming soon.
It's not that hard. Truth is your entire field of experience. Anything you experience is truth. But be careful not to conflate raw experience with your thoughts and concepts about it.
You start by distinguishing direct experience from all concepts. And you ground yourself in direct experience. Then you use that to sort through all human concepts.
Just look at your hand. That is truth. It is thoughts about your hand which create falsehoods and illusions. You could also have truthful thoughts but that requires very careful thinking.

This is a great place to start.
You want to use truth to ground yourself, orherwise the mind devolves into conceptual fantasies and illusions.
What I said is even more fundamental than that.
"Trump is a devil" is a conceptual judgment. If you just look at your raw experience of Trump without any concepts you will not see any devil. You will not even see a human. You will see computer screens and photographs. Raw experience strips away all the mental noise, labels, and categories. This grounds you in raw reality. This cleanses the mind of trash.
By doing this exercise you will realize that you don't even know if Trump exists as a human. All you have are photographs of him. That's the truth.

The reframe is that handling this much money responsibly is just the next step of your development. Handling money and big deals is a skill. So developing that skill is the real gold here. Money is just a resource and you will train yourself how to manage resources effecticvely to do good in the world. Doing good in the world requires good resource management. You will put these resources toward actualizing yourself and improving the world.
Visualize all this in your mind every day until you are clear that this is just what your path needs.
If that fails, I am happy to hold on to your money