Yes but there is another piece of this consensus too

Unlike other countries with free education and big top schools, our best schools are small and expensive. Yes, over a career, the ROI still maths, but think about that - *over a career*

Why do these schools stay expensive? Precisely so that the smartest minds who attend them will have complete dependency on the network (and network consensus) for the rest of their professional careers

With low debt (small mortgage) and a Bitcoin stack, I’m free to easily see that vaccines are a scam (not my field)

One of my friends with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt he needs to pay off with a fat salary from a big health insurance company simply cannot afford the career risk that comes with examining the possibility that vaccines are scams. If he was pushed out of the consensus, he’d lose his ability to pay on his debt and he can’t discharge it in bankruptcy.

We laugh at how long student loans can be paid off for. But the duration is precisely the point. They want you locked in and committed to the system and the consensus for as long as possible. (Ditto mortgages of course.)

The system works precisely as intended to enslave the brightest minds to the system for their entire careers.

I’m reminded that the justification of the Berlin Wall in East Germany was explicitly expressed as “we gave these lawyers and doctors and professionals a free education. They owe it to our society to stay here and work.”

Student loan debt is our Berlin Wall