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Chapter 9 · Part Three: You Already Use LeverageOutline

There Are Two Kinds of Debt

世界上有两种债

Debt is not automatically bad. What matters is what sits behind it.

Wallace Wang · Updated 2026-09-14

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Chapter summary

This chapter takes apart the idea that debt is simply bad. The useful question is what the debt paid for. Borrowing for a luxury car that loses value every year is consumption debt; borrowing for an asset that produces cash flow or has long-term growth potential is asset debt. Both are "owing money"; they are not the same thing.

Debt has no direction of its own. The asset behind it sets the direction.
中文原稿 · Chinese manuscript

这一章非常重要,要把 “Debt is bad” 彻底拆掉。

不是:有债 = 坏。 而是:债务后面是什么?

  • 消费债务——借钱买一辆不断贬值的豪车。
  • 资产债务——借钱购买能产生现金流、或具有长期增值潜力的资产。

两者都叫“欠钱”,本质完全不同。

债务本身没有方向,债务后面的资产决定方向。

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