Well, this is not a strictly economic post, but this was so weird that I just had to put it out. Apparently, people in Japan are scrupulously honest when it comes down to cash...and they have lots of rich people with too much of it too.
Some people have been busy putting envelopes of 10000 Yen in public toilets for people to take away. And the dumb jocks have been returning it!
Ditto with money raining down from the sky. Someone rained a 100 banknotes down near a mall....all 100 were returned.
So what does this say about Japan? That they are scrupulously honest? Give me a break...They are only as honest as the next guy is. But they do live in a society with far more surveillance than most others. After all, its a small place, and when every other Tom, Dick, Harry, or Nakamura has a mobile camera along, you really don't want to look like a fool. Even if the cost of it is money going waste. Besides, they could then be parodied on YouTube, and maybe a manga would be made of them!
You know the worst thing about the money though. If no one claims it (and it is not likely they will), it will go into the public funds. That is why it prompted some Jap Wiseguy to say, "It must have been a foreigner wot threw all that cash away. Which Japanese person would give his money to the government voluntarily. Cause every Japanese person knows about Japanese and money found on the street!"
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