Dig into the experiment known as the lost wallet test, and find out the surprising results of this study of honesty.--Picture this: you’re working a shift in...
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'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