Why Is There No Theft In Tokyo, a 44-Million-Inhabitant Megalopolis?

Lina Boudier
12 min readJan 23, 2024

The obvious reasons are obviously incorrect; else, we’d have already eradicated theft worldwide.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash // “Take me! Take me!” wailed the 100-euro bill. But no one budged. For the very first time in a long and eventful life, the banknote felt… undesirable.

Last week, I shared how a long walk along the Ghanaian coast changed the way I thought about human cultures, or the social realities created by a community of human minds.

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Lina Boudier

An economist with a love of humans. I write about culture, economics, and cultivating peace of mind