> "It may be your right (or not, I don't even know)." No. This is stealing. I ca... | Hacker News

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		rendall on Sept 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rhythm 0 > "It may be your right (or not, I don't even know)." No. This is stealing. I cannot imagine a modern legal system that would not recognize it as such. "How did you acquire this wallet?" "Oh, I found it in the street!" "Oh, no problem, then. It's yours."

girament on Sept 25, 2023 [–]

Ok, fair enough. But again, what's legal and what people do are very different things. You'd be surprised how many people would just keep it.

rendall on Sept 25, 2023 | [–]

I would not be surprised at all. It turns out there is actual data on this: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712

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