Legal shoplifting and high agency

A place in Japan where you can shoplift, as long as you are silent, and what does it mean to have high agency?

Tokyo’s Silent “Theft” Event Returns

Imagine going to a place where you can legally shoplift - but you have to be silent …

High Agency

A long article by George Mack about the concept of “high agency”. He gives a hypothetical question to identify who in your life has high agency:

You wake up in a 3rd world jail cell. You’re only allowed to call one person you know to get you out of there. Who do you call?

He then goes further and explains that you need 3 things to demonstrate high agency:

• Disagreeability
• Clear thinking
• Bias to action

You need all three.