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the oldest economy, where everyone agrees it's wrong until they're the one short on cash
means The act of taking something that belongs to someone else without permission and with no intention of giving it back.
from From Old English 'stelan,' to take wrongfully or secretly — a word with deep Germanic roots, a cousin of Dutch 'stelen' and German 'stehlen.' The 'stealth' family rides along here too: to steal was, at heart, to move unseen, which tells you the crime and the craft were always tangled together.
- Brain reward
- Theft lights up the same dopamine circuits as winning
- Pirate code
- Buccaneers had stricter anti-theft rules than navies
- Magpie myth
- Studies show magpies actually fear shiny objects
- Famous heist
- The Mona Lisa was stolen by a museum worker in 1911
- Legal loophole
- Finding lost cash you keep can count as theft
for instance
the great train robbery — 1855 heist on the london-south western railway where £212,000 in gold was stolen
antwerp diamond heist — 2003 theft of $100 million in diamonds from the world's largest diamond center vault