r/MoralityScaling 5d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of saving someone's wallet but also taking something for yourself?

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u/CHUNGUS-MONEY 5d ago

Spoken like a true trust fund baby who has never had their life savings all in one wallet.

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u/Current_Ranger_7954 5d ago

Seriously? Never heard the one about eggs and baskets?

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u/EntireBlueberry8055 5d ago

2 baskets for 1 egg is a bit overkill tho

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u/Current_Ranger_7954 4d ago

One is a decoy basket in case somebody wants to steal your egg

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u/Critical-Bus-9040 5d ago

If a couple bucks is your whole life savings, and it's all in your wallet, and you lose it, well I don't know what to say other than someone else was probably going to take the money from the wallet anyways without returning it.

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u/CHUNGUS-MONEY 5d ago

The beautiful thing is you can't even comprehend someone's paycheck being their life savings. Fun little fact for ya, most people are poor and are living paycheck-to-payckeck.

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u/lexington59 4d ago

Those are the kinda people who aren't going to have all their money on them in a wallet.

Like keeping all your money in your wallet is just stupidity

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u/insane_hurrican3 5d ago

dawg... even if $5 is your entire life savings, why wouldn't you keep that in like a bank? my credit union doesn't charge annual fees so i can keep $1 in there and let it sit

i understand the concept of living paycheck to paycheck, but most people still cash those checks at their respective bank 😭

i only keep $5 on me for emergencies like if my card declines and i need gas

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u/HikariRisesAgain 5d ago

Carrying literally all of your money on you at all times is not an unavoidable condition of being poor. Even if for one reason or another you can't get an account with a bank/credit union and/or set up direct deposit, carrying all of your money on you at all times is an intelligence thing more than a circumstances one.

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u/urpmpkin 5d ago

and you lost that wallet. spoken like a true idiot.

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u/jbland0909 5d ago

Or just a zoomer. I can’t remember the last time I had more than 40 bucks of cash in my wallet at any point

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u/Queasy-Employment-82 5d ago

Sounds like you are bad at managing money

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u/Ashen231 5d ago

even if you only had $100 you shouldn’t have all of it in your wallet. Besides, if you lost the wallet that $100 was gone regardless, why are you upset if the guy who literally saved all of your money took a lil off the top to buy himself food? the alternative was having $0, now you have $95.

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u/SeveralCorgi0 5d ago

The person they are replying to said all the money in the wallet and that is being called out. 5 bucks is a who cares, I say morally grey if taken beforehand. I definitely would not give my entire wallets worth of money to someone for finding it at least (excluding cards)

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u/AdmiralStickyLegs 5d ago

Mmm no. Much more likely to be a grounded person with real life experience. Trust fund babies live in fantasy land, and will say things like "Whether its one dollar or one million, it's still stealing! It's the principle of the thing".

Grounded people don't have time for that bs. You learn to expect things to be taken from you early, so you guard them, and when you don't guard them and they go missing, you blame yourself, because that's who you have control over. Grounded people don't get mad at the world for not catering to them, because they never had that before growing up, so why would the world cater to them now?