“I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” – Thomas Jefferson
Most people look at billionaires and assume they have absolute independence. Take Elon Musk. Head of companies like Tesla and SpaceX. Publicly stated as the wealthiest person in the world, yet there are individuals and entities within the Establishment that possess far greater levels of wealth throughout the world. From the outside, individuals like Mr Musk seem to have total freedom.
But here’s the uncomfortable reality: If you know the names of people who appear to have wealth, then the people with the real wealth are hidden from you. The truth is, Elon Musk is financially restrained and controlled. The entire financial system, from top to bottom, runs on control. Those in the Establishment who run the system could never afford for anyone at the top or bottom end, to break free of this systemic control, not least of all someone with the intellect, resources and innovative ability as Elon Musk…!
What Limits Elon Musk’s Power
Like most founders of public companies, Mr Musk cannot simply sell large volumes of his own stock to fund his business expansion or acquisitions. If he were to offload significant shares, the market would interpret it as a loss of confidence in those companies. The share price would fall sharply. Panic selling could follow.
So what’s the alternative?
Borrowing.
Just as everyday citizens in the middle and working classes can take a secured loan against their house, executives often borrow against their stock holdings.But to do this at scale requires trust, typically with the same investment banks that took the company public.
The Power of Investment Banks
This is where what many people such as Simon Dixon describe as the “Financial Industrial Complex” comes into focus. This is the web of investment banks, institutional investors and asset managers that control access to funding. Firms like BlackRock sit at key nodes in this ecosystem, controlling and allocating trillions across global markets.
“When your borrowing capacity depends on market valuations, and your valuations can be repriced overnight, you are tethered to the system no matter how financially rich you are.” – Simon Dixon.
We have been presented with the illusion that the higher up the echelons you go, the more control and freedom you have. This is clearly part of the scam, because no matter how high up you go, if you are not part of the Establishment, you’re not truly free.
Here’s the deeper warning.
Money Doesn’t Bring More Control of Our Choices On its Own
The modern financial architecture is designed to keep individuals — whether ordinary homeowners or billionaire founders — constrained within its structure. Debt binds. Access to capital becomes the control mechanism.
At the bottom, people are tied to mortgages, credit cards and rising living costs.
At the top, executives are tied to stock prices, collateral requirements and capital markets. We’re all in the same Scamtology boat.
Different level. Same scam.
The uncomfortable truth is this: financial scamming at the consumer level mirrors structural dependency at the elite level. The “Financial and Industrial Complex” that Mr Dixon cites, incentivises behaviour that keeps everyone moving within its boundaries.
Understanding this doesn’t mean rejecting the financial system. It means recognising where real freedom, control and power sits.
Money, on its own, does not guarantee freedom.
The Scam of Our Human Capability Assets
This further reinforces the scam of financial and material assets such as money and property. We have been led to believe these assets are untouchable and the pinnacle of wealth. Now of course having these assets are important. And to state the obvious, having financial and material assets is much better than having financial and material liabilities!
However we are never taught at school that these assets come as a fruit of our human competencies. Without the human being, material and financial wealth means nothing. Just ask yourself this, would you rather have £10 million, but be the only person on earth? Or have 10 million high-trust relationships, with no money? The former would be pointless. The latter is the lifeblood of resources and money would not be an issue for you.
Why do we never learn about the value of a human being in our education? Because the Establishment wants us to get jobs, not increase and improve the use of our human endowments. This means we remain within their control at a much higher level by being ignorant of our human and financial assets. Make no mistake, while Elon Musk is still within the controls of the financial markets and therefore the Establishment, he has a lot more flexibility and freedom than the average citizen.
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Wow. I didn’t appreciate this at all. To see the mechanics of how someone like Elon Musk is controlled, puts a lot into perspective. There is the macro illusion that there’s a “ladder” to climb of greater levels of wealth and success. Meanwhile, it’s one giant goldfish bowl inside the Establishment’s pen. Thank God He is real. I hope Mr Musk truly finds God and the only source of his freedom.
I did not know this – it’s scary. We are told that money gives you freedom but actually the bigger the net worth, the more one is tethered to them as a slave. The Establishment have tentacles everywhere. Thank you to Mr Dixon for sharing his knowledge of Scamtology.
I had never really asked myself how much entrepreneurs and founders of major companies depend on powerful institutions, especially on the financial and industrial complex. Reflecting on this helps me see more clearly how interconnected everything is, and that even someone in a position like Elon Musk’s isn’t automatically free without consequences to their actions.
It highlights how influence and power are often far more layered and complex than they appear on the surface. It also reminds me of the importance of genuine relationships and of understanding what truly holds value in our lives and why. This goes far deeper than money or status.
Thank you.
This is certainly insightful. I recall articles about Elon Musk sleeping on floors, borrowing money to pay rent and being on the verge of bankruptcy as part of his journey that any successful person needs to endure. However, I didn’t know the reality of what it looks like with the achievement of established billionaire status. It completely dismantles the idea of billionaires being free, when they are actually more constricted. That’s before even getting to things like the loss of privacy etc that comes from being a public figure.
This really makes you think. It’s easy to assume someone like Elon Musk is completely independent, but this highlights how even powerful figures can be influenced by much bigger financial systems. It’s less about the individual and more about the structure around them. That’s the part people often overlook.
“Different level, same scam” sums it up well. If we think that people like Elon are really the top of the chain and that he is truly the wealthiest man on the planet we have been scammed too. Those with the greatest power and wealth are those who hold people like Elon in their pocket and we will have no idea what their names even are. It’s really time that we started to look for ways to do so and built a system outside of this corrupt dark one… all it would take is a change in mindset and thinking
You would think that those with money, like Elon Musk, have a lot of control, but this article is allowing us to understand differently. We don’t know the full extent of how much control the establishment has over all of us. It’s scary that they can close our back accounts so quickly, we won’t know what hit us. From what I’m reading, even those like Elon are not safe. Thank you for this article, I look forward to learning more.
What is standing out is that there are common notions floating around in society, but the reality is very different. What we have been led to believe is not reality. Financial wealth has been presented as the elixir of a happy life. There are control mechanisms everywhere, everything in our society is designed for certain outcomes. I definitely am moving towards creating outside the system, it is needed. It is very disturbing, given what is happening to billionaires now with the Epstein file release. I guess those who are wealthy now feel their time is at an end.
Wow — truly fascinating. There’s so much we didn’t even realise we didn’t know. So much to learn, and this is just one (albeit very important) aspect of life, living, and business.
Thank you for sharing these crucial insights and helping us better understand the world we’re currently navigating. God bless us all. 🙏
This explains a lot and why every billionaire – no matter how beneficiary their beliefs are – has not been able to effect lasting global change to third world countries. These countries are potentially new markets once developed, so why not invest in them and cure problems like clean water and starvation? Because that’s not what the Escamlishment wants.
This is chilling! Like many citizens, I had no idea that these people who are presented as having all the power, are themselves under the control of the Escamblishment in ways that we wouldn’t think they would be. The level of control that the banks have, is incredibly disturbing to think about because you have to then ask why and what are they doing with that control…and that’s what we are revealing.