TERM-039Behavioral
Cultural Debt
The accumulated cost of norms that were tolerated instead of addressed. Cultural debt works like technical debt — it accrues interest. The longer a dysfunctional pattern persists, the more normalized it becomes, and the harder it is to change without significant disruption.
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