“Debt is modern slavery and anyone willingly taking on loans is accepting their own bondage”
Agree
- Binds your future labor to past
- Interest is perpetual extraction mechanism
- Banks literally own your time
- Financial stress destroys health and relationships
- Debt normalizes servitude mentality
Disagree
- Leverage enables building wealth faster
- Strategic debt accelerates financial goals
- Mortgages create homeowners from renters
- Hyperbolic comparison trivializes actual slavery
- Debt is tool, not inherently evil
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