La poule aux oeufs d'or

"Radix malorum est cupiditas"... "Greed is the root of all evil" Why are the French mostly not very eutrepreneurial... even though it's a French word? The fact that the word for greed in French is "cupidité" reinforces the fact that it is all a lure and they truly believe that. Less IS more... eating lunch while working at the office while talking to a friend on the phone while ordering goods online while polishing your nails while drinking coffee from a plastic cup is NOT multi-tasking to the French, it's being greedy and distasteful. "Il faut profiter de la vie"... You have to enjoy life, make the most of everything, as opposed to having more and more of everything, according to French mentality. So to answer the questions that visitors to France ask time and time again... Why does everything close between 12pm and 2pm?... To eat lunch! Why is everything closed on Mondays?... Because in France you work 35 hours a week! Why do restaurants close between 2pm and 7pm?... Because it's not lunchtime! Why do small businesses shut up shop in August?... To go on Summer holidays! Why do French children go to bed so late (i.e. not 7pm)?... To eat with their family! Why do the French drive crappy cars?... Because they don't live on credit! Why can't you buy medicine from supermarkets?... That's what pharmacies are for! Why can't I order my steak extra well-cooked with no shallot sauce but ketchup instead?... Because the person cooking it takes pride in what they do! I'm really not preaching... just sayin'. It is mostly tongue in cheek... which of course the French eat, along with horse, brains, beavers, frogs, snails, if it used to breathe, eat it! More, more, more... ad nauseum.