Actually, of those, the only one I’m aware of who misdefines assets and liabilities like you is the so-called finance expert Robert Kiyosaki, whose only proven expertise is being wildly successful at selling books based on questionable premises and discredited claims.

If you have links to where actual successful investors (such as Buffet or Thiel) define assets in the bizzarre way you presented, I’d be extremely interested to read those. If you provide such from creditable sources in a response here, I promise to read it, and if appropriate, to eat my fill of crow.

Until and unless you do that, to paraphrase you, you’re welcome to cling to your perspective, but I don’t buy snake oil, no matter how successful the salesman is at peddling it to others.