Debt can be neatly understood as leanness going into the negative. Unlike human bodies, orgs can go lean beyond zero into negative weight
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hmm. Wouldn't (shouldn't) lean be measured by the asset side of the balance sheet, not the finance side?
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Debt leverages equity, enabling accumulation of assets now by exploiting future cash flows. Nothing necessarily lean about that.
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you're confusing map for territory. An 'asset' is a reification of a bit of reality whose behavior is assumed under control
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