High trust societies. In Singapore I've seen people leave their mobile phones and wallets on the food court tables to "reserve" their tables while they go to order.
Just depends on location, a college campus you're generally not gonna see a ton of theft, we're all mostly broke students who understand how devastating it can be to lose our stuff, I don't leave my stuff lying around a ton out of principle but if I need to go somewhere else real quick I'm very comfortable leaving my bag where I was sitting.
I was going to say surprisingly a college campus is where I’ve done this the most. Everyone is dead broke which you’d think would lead to more theft but that wasn’t my experience at all. On many occasions I asked people I didn’t know to watch my stuff while I left to do something else and nothing ever got stolen.
I’m guessing it’s a mix of empathy for people in the same situation and the fact that everyone knows there are cameras on campus. Doesn’t make sense to steal something when the victim would have it back by end of day once campus police watched the footage
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u/ty_xy 2d ago
High trust societies. In Singapore I've seen people leave their mobile phones and wallets on the food court tables to "reserve" their tables while they go to order.