Metta definition #57: Austerity, noun. 1. A bizarre economic phenomenon where the consequences of bad behaviour least effects those who behaved badly.
2. Difficult economic conditions imposed only on the poor and helpless who had the least part in creating the situation that led to it and who have the least capacity to pay.
3. An excuse for cheats, liars, swindlers, bullies and henchpersons of bullies to look alternately pious, mealy-mouthed and grim as they impose measures that will have a proportionally greater effect on those they are least likely to be personally acquainted with...
...and who are furthest away from them on any given social ladder.
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