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| author | Vidhu Kant Sharma <vidhukant@vidhukant.xyz> | 2022-10-02 23:29:51 +0530 |
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| committer | Vidhu Kant Sharma <vidhukant@vidhukant.xyz> | 2022-10-02 23:29:51 +0530 |
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diff --git a/content/blog/2022/dont-cover-liabilities-with-liabilities.md b/content/blog/2022/dont-cover-liabilities-with-liabilities.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5758b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022/dont-cover-liabilities-with-liabilities.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: "Don't Cover Liabilities With Liabilities" +date: 2022-10-02T21:57:52+05:30 +--- + +Robert Kiyosaki, in his famous book, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", said +"You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets." +I like that statement. I don't think it only applies to making money. + +Not only people don't realise that they're constantly piling liabilities, +they use liabilities to... get rid of liabilities? + +## Liabilities that take liabilities away + +You'd find many products, etc that promise to fix an issue, sometimes they actually do. +But many times they're just trying to make you believe that you're getting rid of all these problems, +while in fact, these things that promise to take away your problems *are* a problem themselves. + +I stumbled across one of these recently. It was a certain app that scans all of your emails and gives you a +report on what websites and services you've registered with and which sites are keeping your personal data. +Apparently it also lets you easily request to delete that personal data. How convenient! + +The problem is all these companies keeping a hold of your personal data. +The goal is to keep track and/or ask to delete that data. +Now you're giving **another** company all of your data, which analyses your data and tells +you about who is using your data. People falling for this have completely missed the point. +You *think* you are solving a problem, but you're making the problem bigger! + +You initially wanted to lower your digital footprint or whatever, but instead +you signed up for yet another service, which **increases** your digital footprint. +Beware of such tactics. ~~For legal reasons~~ I can't say that the app is doing something bad, +but you need to realise that what you think will take liabilities away might even be a liability itself. + |