Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta - eviltoast
  • Salvo@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    It’s not “America Bad”. It is “Capitalism Bad”. When a builder or contractor can save 5c in the dollar by half-arseing the job, and then come back to “fix” it and charge $1 extra for something that would have been 5c worth of extra work, they win and we loose.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      It’s “America bad” because it came up in an Australian community on an Australian instance in a discussion about Australian houses.