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knowledge and debt share an interesting property they both provide leverage at the cost of a pressure gradient that pushes you to maximize the potential of that leverage in the form of constant anxiety.

while theoretically knowledge can just sit there and not incur cost unlike debt, in practice knowledge is often a heavy burden. just as debt provides a temporary sense of wealth, knowledge provides a sense of abundance.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333339180601020416 …

just like debt, it can be used as a nitro-boost to catch to other if used WISELY. many people who have become independently wealthy for example have started off as real estate agents, using the unique property of mortgages in the U.S. to gain access to pseudo-capital.

the equivalent of a debt-hole for knowledge is excess knowledge that compounds into increasingly dissatisfying world views of the world until insanity, cynicism, or nihilism. these perspective shifts warp the world into a recursive knot of mirrors.

the boundary of the world view wraps back into the center, creating self-contradiction, arrogance, and doublethink rather than risk incurring even more debt with having to admit "i don't know" a warped world view is the equivalent of cutting up credit cards.

just like with credit cards, preventing the accumulation of debt is one thing, but once the debt starts compounding faster than it can be paid off, it's just a smaller black hole vs a bigger black hole. there's still no escape.