How Much (if any) would you reward this person?

[Yopaz]

Well, the law here actually states that the finder is supposed to get 10% (33% if the owner isn't found) so I would have given him 25000 at least.

You're legally obligated to give 10% of the money returned to the person returning it?

Communism!

Well I think that's how it works, but that might be only if you have to go through the police in order to do so. However there is a part of the law that states this and why is that bad? It actually gives people motivation to do the right thing rather than seeing the chance to get some quick money.

 

[Zen Toombs]

I guess I'd give him 50.000 and tell him to go on a nice holiday or something.

Awww, you do have a heart or something!

 

[WanderingFool]

35k. That kind of honesty is rare in today's society, especially when it comes to large sums of money. It's worth rewarding in my opinion, especially because of how easy it would be to go the other way. Kudos on him!

I may give the cabbie even more than that. Anyone but that guy would have probably kept the money.

Moot point, as I wouldn't even be able to leave 250k sitting in a car somewhere. No, there is no "well you maybe"s, I would never...
...never...
...never...
...leave 250,000 dollars in a car somewhere. I know the point is a hypothetical, but I can't imagine the scenario. You know that theory of the infinite parallel dimensions based on all possible outcomes? Well, I can safely say that there is no universe in existence in which I leave 250,000 dollars in a cab.

Yeah, to be honest, if I won that much money and left it in a cab, I do really deserve not to get it back, due to dumbass tax.

Its for that reason though that I would give that cabbie such a big reward. Sure, it may be $35-50K less than what I would have liked, but its $200-215K more than if I was stupid enough to leave it in a cab...

Actually, why the hell was he carrying around $250K!?

*Edit*

Actually, I forgot about taxes in general. I probably wouldnt have the full $250K. So maybe I wont give him that $50000 tip, but still, I would give him something.

 

[PanasonicYouth]

Well, the law here actually states that the finder is supposed to get 10% (33% if the owner isn't found) so I would have given him 25000 at least.

You're legally obligated to give 10% of the money returned to the person returning it?

Communism!

Well I think that's how it works, but that might be only if you have to go through the police in order to do so. However there is a part of the law that states this and why is that bad? It actually gives people motivation to do the right thing rather than seeing the chance to get some quick money.

I suppose my argument is that honesty should not need rewarding. Everyone should be honest.

Virtue is its own reward.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Well, the law here actually states that the finder is supposed to get 10% (33% if the owner isn't found) so I would have given him 25000 at least.

That sounds pretty cool, but [citation needed].

OT: I'd definitly give the cab driver more, probably between 5,000-12,500. But it isn't some moral outrage that the nice cabby was given only $2,000.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I'd give him 50k if it was me but if i was the cabbie then i would have only found 50k in the back of my car...

 

[Saregon]

Here in Norway you are encouraged to give up to 10% as a finders fee. For my part, how much I would give would depend on the situation. Here it seems like the cabbie could have fairly easily walk off with it clean, and it's also money the other guy wouldn't have anyway, it's not his salary for example, so I would probably go at least a bit higher, 10-15k perhaps. Would have given more, but I'd probably want to spend it on my family.

 

[Zen Toombs]

I suppose my argument is that honesty should not need rewarding. Everyone should be honest.

Virtue is its own reward.

Says the person who has probably never had to struggle to have enough to survive.

Yeah, in an ideal world Honesty should not need a reward, and everyone would be honest. But the world is not ideal, and people suffer and starve and do what they must to survive. The cabbie wasn't entitled to a reward, but he deserved one.

 

[Kae]

I don't know I'd have to be in the situation to know what I would do exactly, both letting him keep all the money and not giving him anything sound like things I would do, at least to me, maybe split it 50/50? I don't know, but in any case forgetting a large sum of money in a cab does sound exactly like something I would do if I had a large sum of money -_-'
[sub][sub]Seriously when I was a waiter I always forgot to pick up my tips, somebody else had to remind me.[/sub][/sub]

 

[Charli]

10% and then hire him as my own person chauffeur, I mean seriously, that's the kind of person I need working for me. 2k is a bit stingy but hey maybe this person was severely in debt or something we don't know the full story.

 

[burningdragoon]

I'd probably give him more than 2k, maybe like 10 or so at least, but I think 2k by itself is certainly more than acceptable really.

 

[PanasonicYouth]

I suppose my argument is that honesty should not need rewarding. Everyone should be honest.

Virtue is its own reward.

Says the person who has probably never had to struggle to have enough to survive.

Says the person who was homeless at sixteen and spent five years in minimum wage jobs before training as a nurse, one of the most under-appreciated and under-paid professions you're likely to find, actually. But you keep making your assumptions, ey?

Yeah, in an ideal world Honesty should not need a reward, and everyone would be honest. But the world is not ideal, and people suffer and starve and do what they must to survive. The cabbie wasn't entitled to a reward, but he deserved one.

I still can't justify theft as a means to survive.

 

[Yopaz]

Well, the law here actually states that the finder is supposed to get 10% (33% if the owner isn't found) so I would have given him 25000 at least.

That sounds pretty cool, but [citation needed].

OT: I'd definitly give the cab driver more, probably between 5,000-12,500. But it isn't some moral outrage that the nice cabby was given only $2,000.

Well, the law here actually states that the finder is supposed to get 10% (33% if the owner isn't found) so I would have given him 25000 at least.

You're legally obligated to give 10% of the money returned to the person returning it?

Communism!

Looked it up and it seems like what I have been told about this was inaccurate or that either the person who told me or I misunderstood along the way. The finder can refuse to return the item unless he/she is satisfied with the reward offered, but 10% is the upper limit of what can be demanded.

In a way I lied by accident here. I apologize for the confusion caused. However I'd still give him 10%.

 

[DarkRawen]

If I had been the taxi driver, I probably (because one would never know unless one have been in such a situation) wouldn't have expected to get much, and honestly, anything more than 2 000 is more than what I would have accepted, if I had accepted that much at all.

On the other hand, I would probably pay more than that if I had lost that much money and gotten it back from someone that honest...

I'm a hypocrite, it seems. But probably around 25 000, considering it matches (as others have stated) the reward one would get in Norway

 

[Nouw]

Food for thought: At what point does it become an acceptable or unacceptable sum of money? Anyway, I'd feel more inclined to befriend him and reward him some other way. Rewarding him with cash feels just doesn't sit right with me.

 

[Scarim Coral]

That is still better than normal amount a regular person will tip right? Be grateful for it than being greedy to ask for more.
I mean yes it good that he did return his cash but I think $2,000 tip is fine. Well I would of tip at least $5,000 but that is my opinion since I never had tip before (I don't exactly go to a resturant by myself or in charge of the payment).

 

[Swyftstar]

Aren't you legally obligated to turn in found money? If so the cabbie couldn't have kept it anyway and $2,000 is fine. Me personally, If I ever won that much money I'd immediately go on vacation to like Hawaii or something so as a reward I'd invite him and his family along.

 

[Dethenger]

I'd have given him more than half of it. If I won it at a casino, he did more to earn it than I did.

 

[Snydeclyde]

Having read the link (3rd post-ish) it said the actual amount was $221,000,
in that case i would have given him the $21,000 and been very happy to get $200,000 back.

He's lucky to have lost it in the US, where i live (south america) no one hands stuff into the police/security/authorities or whatever, not because they don't want to give it back, but because the people they hand it to will just keep it themselves.

 

[deathzero021]

Morally, i think i would want to give him half of it... but we humans are pretty greedy. so i'd probably end up giving him 50k of it.