WOULD YOU TAKE THE 20$ OR TELL THE TRUTH?!?

[Sloth]

I wouldn't take it because it's likely to be a social experiment like this one. I've never had someone approach me about this before being totally serious.

 

[Helloimrex]

If someone found a twenty dollar bill, I would say it's isn't mine and that the person should report it

Report a loose $20 bill on the ground? How is that going to work? It isn't in a wallet, it's an item most people have on them, if I don't take it statistically someone else will and it won't be theirs either. Dropping a $20 bill is the fault of the person who dropped it and its fair they lose the $20 because it would be such an inconvenient task to get it back to them. Now, if they drop a credit card or a wad of $1000 that's a different story. Not everyone can reasonably claim its theirs. So yeah, taking the $20 is actually the right thing to do because you are wasting the least amount of time for the guy stupidly wandering around and asking everyone who's bill it is.

These kind of social experiments don't say anything profound. "Oh, let me walk around and pretend to give people $20 then call them bad people when they actually try to take it."

 

[Grapefruit]

Report a loose $20 bill on the ground? How is that going to work? It isn't in a wallet, it's an item most people have on them, if I don't take it statistically someone else will and it won't be theirs either. Dropping a $20 bill is the fault of the person who dropped it and its fair they lose the $20 because it would be such an inconvenient task to get it back to them. Now, if they drop a credit card or a wad of $1000 that's a different story. Not everyone can reasonably claim its theirs. So yeah, taking the $20 is actually the right thing to do because you are wasting the least amount of time for the guy stupidly wandering around and asking everyone who's bill it is.

These kind of social experiments don't say anything profound. "Oh, let me walk around and pretend to give people $20 then call them bad people when they actually try to take it."

okay, but what if the person who dropped it only had 20 bucks on them?

 

[Helloimrex]

okay, but what if the person who dropped it only had 20 bucks on them?

Then you still have no clue who to return it to and no clue if it is even rightfully theirs. They shouldn't have dropped it.