🦄 Startups & VC 17h ago · Justin Brown

The person who keeps their thermostat at the same temperature their parents kept theirs may not just be frugal — they may still be living inside a household rule that ended thirty years ago

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The person who keeps their thermostat at the same temperature their parents kept theirs may not just be frugal — they may still be living inside a household rule that ended thirty years ago
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There is a moment, and I noticed it again last Tuesday, when my hand hovers over the dial and a small calculation that is not really a calculation runs in the background, and the dial settles where it always settles, which happens to be exactly where my father set it in a house I have not lived in for over twenty years.
The frugality explanation is the easiest one to reach for. Someone keeps the thermostat low, refuses to turn the heating up, or treats the air conditioning remote like a moral te

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