alt Hacker NewsFor those wondering why she's wearing wool and gloves indoors - New Zealanders typically can't afford electric heating, and wear woolen clothing in doors to to make up for this, when they can't burn firewood or coal.
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Often kiwis can afford it but just choose not to. My own parents are well off and yet still have an absolutely freezing house all winter, it drives me crazy. Just put on a sweater, and another one over that, and a blanket....
Imagine thinking that wearing a sweater in wintertime means you're poor. Couldn't be me.
The gloves are a special kind made of thermal material for people with Raynaud's disease, where narrowing of the blood vessels reduces circulation in cold temperatures.
That’s a funny callback to last weeks RNZ article https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/cosy-ways-to-keep-warm-...
Lol but seriously 4th highest median wealth per capita. The median NZ citizen has 3x the wealth of the median us citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
Of course they have very low wealth inequality so they don’t have trillionaires at all which some people may see as a problem. In fact remarkably despite the median wealth of NZ being so much higher than the USA they have a lower average wealth per capita.
They just spread the wealth around making the middle class 3x richer.
More likely a second hand book store in Newtown is an old and draughty building. Running a heater in there would be the same as running one outdoors.
Or she just gets cold. My daughter wears those kind of gloves all winter regardless of how warm we heat the house.