Western Economists are wrong and extremely out of touch on some of the very most basic aspects of human interaction? Shocker :thinking-about-it:
dude the wallet described in that test is so fucking sus, i'd assume it was a set up
ted-ed is usually better than ted talks. check out their video on Che
Ugh I hated that
"Should a revolutionary be judged by their ideals or their outcomes?" :think-mark: How about both dude :galaxy-brain: the ideals and outcomes of the Cuban Revolution were both good
i've found wallets a few times and returned them. neither time did they have more than a few bucks, and both times they looked like regular people. the real shitshow with a lost wallet is all the IDs and shit and having to get new ones, so of course i'd return them because dealing with all that while working sucks ass. it's probably different in other countries, but in the US if you're not carrying photo ID, the shit you can do legally drops off quick.
if they looked rich and had some kind of asshole job, then of course i would clean them out and toss the wallet in a trash can, but that has yet to happen.
the conclusions of this study are so ass backwards. if i came across a wallet as described with $13-$100 in it at work, i'm going to return it. also if randomly in the street, unless i was personally in a jam at that moment. but if i came across a wallet with over $200 in it? i'm cleaning that out. a friend knows a guy that carries around thousands in cash. guy is shady as fuck.
if i came across a roll like that (>$1000), i'm pocketing it. nobody up to any good is carrying around that much cash, and if they are, they have it strapped to their body.
I assumed that the forfeiture of cash is the cost of doing business with a lost wallet. I feel like large amounts of cash lying there is a liability I don't want to be a part of. Seems like trouble. I'm in an economic place to say that, of course. I wouldn't have much sympathy if someone was ranting about how they got their $1000 stolen when they lost their wallet
I know the answer to this because last month I found a wallet in parking lot and returned it. To be fair the wallet didn't contain an ID with a name like Elon Musk or Bill Gates. If it had I would still do the moral thing and clean it out before trashing it.
