Many things were far more beautiful in imagination than in reality. Great cities recorded in documents, when actually visited a thousand years later, were nowhere near as impressive as Italy and France. Those who joined the Egyptian expedition regretted going to Egypt.
The first rule of the American Dream was buying a house. Homebuyers first had to understand that banks did not lend them money to fulfill their dreams. If they were really so generous, why were they unwilling to help Jacob fulfill his dream of opening a bakery?
A house was collateral. If the borrower could not repay the debt, the bank could repossess it. Everyone wanted a home, and if they wanted one, they had to buy a house and strive for it.
Perhaps someone could go without food solely to maintain a slim figure, but they could not go without water, nor could they avoid using electricity.
Électricité de France actually had another path it could take: raise electricity prices. At that point, someone would step forward and cry, "This is because electricity is run as a monopoly."
Seventy percent of France's electricity came from nuclear power. Who had ever seen nuclear reactors handed over to private operators?
Raising prices meant increasing the burden on the people. In a sense, electricity was as essential to human life as bread had been in the eighteenth century. When electricity prices rose beyond what the people could afford, other problems would arise as well. It was equivalent to burying a ticking bomb inside France, just as Greece had been buried as a bomb within the Euro, ready to explode at any moment.
Compared to spending money on environmental protection, Americans would rather let the environment deteriorate and monopolize precious water resources. That would earn them more money.
The French refusal