thermoausterity

/ˌθɜːrmoʊɒsˈtɛrɪti/nounVerified New

The cultural habituation to living and working in unheated or underheated spaces.

Sweaters indoors as fiscal policy; the body absorbs what the budget cannot. What begins as a price becomes a norm, then an identity.

Etym. — *thermo-* + *austerity*.

Rel. — radiatorpolitics · declinocracy

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