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Originally Posted by cobraboy
Why would any good businessman invest MORE capital in a country when a huge percentage of it's customers steal from them? There are whole neighborhoods all over the country where virtually every house/apartment is getting "free" electricity. The company sends out crews to disconnect, and it gets reconnected as soon as the company trucks are leaving. I've seen it with my own eyes!
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You got that right -THAT is a major problem. Unfortunately the police won't enforce the power companies rights. On the other hand, when power here costs three times as much as in the US one can ask - who is robbing who?
Finally, many Dominicans see it an an inherent right to not to have to pay for power as typically their parents nor their parent's parents paid for power.
How does one fix a problem as such? -
very carefully and slowly so as not to have major public disturbances. They need to enforce it in progressively more areas until the public "awareness" of the fact of the paying for power is inevitable and here to stay.