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On August 01 2013 20:55 FetTerBender wrote:
Buy a knife for the 5$ and stab evil people in the name of your company.
I have to admit i do not believe in companies who "want to make the world a better place". Most companies want to earn money and have a good reputation.
There is a definite business motive behind it. Following the Social Value Act 2012 in the UK, it basically stated that added social value will be considered when letting work in the public sector. It's getting to the point where having the best price is not always going to win you the work.
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Burn it! Money is evil.
By destroying it, you will counteract inflation and make everyone a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny tinsy little bit richer, ergo more evil.
So don`t burn it, keep it, never spend it.
Infact, be like bill gates, but don't spend your money, increasing inflation to a point where money is worthless, and the world is free of all evil.
But if you have so much money, would you still be so good in your heart to follow through, won`t all that money corrupt you just like everyone else?
Hell, whos to say what is evil and what not, define evil, define good, with enough money, you can set the rules, with five dollars you can start saving for more dollars.
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As long as you realise that this thing is not about charity but your creativity. Your boss is testing you 
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Draw or write something on the 5 dollar bill to make it special. (what you will write or draw must be interesting, thought provoking and must have something to do with the charity you're putting forward).
Take a picture of your bill and put it in auction on ebay for more than 5 dollars, explaining that all the money will be used in its entiererty for charity purpose.
if u get 6 dollars or more, do exactly the same thing (with 5 and 1 dollar bills), hoping to get a little more and to keep on rolling.
Now about the charity, people must have an incentive to participate in the buy of your notes, so here's what Ill suggest :
You're gonna keep doing this until you hit some sort of realistic threshold. (you can have multiple one actually, but inform the participant of the project).
Then you'll personally make sure (record it, write a journal about it or something) that all the money is used in effective charity. If you don't know which charity to invest, I'll suggest to launch your own operation. Something like the setup of a collective agricultural field in a country that needs it
(Iraq would be the best candidate in my opinion, for some symbolic reasons).
If you opt for something like this, advertising your project will be very important, find clever alternatives that don't cost money. (TL, Reddit, Craiglist, Facebook, Twitter, just do everything)
I would personally participate in such a charity.
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Donate the $5.00 to a microfinance company. They help people stuck in poverty to start their own businesses. Sometimes the loans are as small as $10.00 and can change someone's life.
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United States10467 Posts
On August 01 2013 07:55 FezTheCaliph wrote:This reminds me a lot of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Challenge where they had to maximize a profit with $5 and 2 hours. Try and think outside the box. Think about things you can do without using the 5 dollars at all. Think about what other resources you have at your disposal aside from the 5 dollars. Here's a write up about the Challenge http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creativityrulz/200908/the-5-challengeGood luck!
I wish I had immediately come up with those solutions. $5 really isn't what you should focus on.
Tbh, op, crowdsourcing something is a lazy solution in this case. It works, but it does not prove your creativity but rather your ability to "get things done" even if it means taking credit for the work of others. That isn't the point of the experiment.
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No time limit? No constraints on other resources you can use?
Download some open source software and free tutorials. For example, Eclipse and Java tutorials. Download as much as you can fit on a DVD. Categorize them so it is easy to access. Burn the entire collection to as many DVDs as you can buy from $5.
I don't think from $5 you can have bigger potential impact on people's lives than this.
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in an ideal world where charities wouldn't skim a ton of that right away, a full $5 could go a long way in a 3rd world country. if you're looking to get the most for your buck, i think your best bet would be to buy $5 worth of non perishable items and drop it at a food pantry, or more directly, $5 worth of dollar menu burgers from mcdonalds and give them to five different homeless people. not exactly healthy, but for dudes who probably wont know here their next meal is coming from, those calories will go a long way
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On August 01 2013 07:27 EdouarKiLL wrote:I don't know why but that kind of corporate management terrify me 
ahahahaha
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This is an exercise created and popularized by a Standford Professor who teaches a course on innovation and entrepreneurship. Most of the students did not end up using the $5 at all, they used their own resources (not money wise) and ingenuity to make a lot of money with that "five dollar" budget. I think they averaged a $500 return or something like that. And she posed this exercise in several different forms as well, not just in a "Make as much money as you can with the $5 investment" type problem but also she asked "How much value can you get out of $5?", that sort of thing.
If you want to do something that'll impress your boss do something clever. If you live in a city where you see a lot of cyclists buy a bike pump at the dollar store, and a big board to write on that says something like "Will pump your tires, you choose how much to pay, for charity". Or something like that.
It's a great exercise. I created my first online business (which failed mind you) for the amount that a lot of people spend eating out each month.
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In case there were not enough good ideas in this thread, here is another one:
Ask your friends or family "What good would you do for the world with five dollars? If your idea is the best among all the people I ask, I'll give you that money. In addition I will tell everyone how awesome your idea was and how it went."
So that one person out of the ten you will ask, will implements his idea. I guess the other 9 will spend their own 5 dollars to do their ideas. So you made a total of 50 dollars being spend on something good.
And maybe the guys who you tell about that awesome idea, will support it too or come up with their own ideas.
Just writing a blog on TL (takes 0 dollars and about 5 minues) made 6 pages worth of people think about how to improve the world - awesome.
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If everybody in the world gave me 50 cents I'd have around 3.5 billion dollars. $5 per employee can go a long way when it's all focused in one direction. Your company's corporate culture is pretty interesting but limiting people to a maximum amount of charity is a little bit laughable.
I'd suggest using the power of multiplication. Find a cause or purpose that is actually worthwhile as far as "making the world better"; petition as many people at your work as possible to get them on board and pool up the $5 budgets to do something with some genuine impact.
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Northern Ireland26426 Posts
Burn the money.
With 5 dollars out of circulation, you have automatically increased the value of everyone elses money across the entire USA at a stroke!
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Don't buy food for the bum.
Bums don't work because they get handouts from people so they can continue living and don't die of starvation. The only thing holding them back from making something of themselves is work. And they won't work if they can get food for free.
Seriously. Don't give money to bums, and don't buy food for them. When they get hungry enough, they can work for it.
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Plant a company garden.
That seems like a good choice.
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Spend it all on condoms and give them to people you think shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. Cleaning up the gene pool ensuring progress of the human race.
Should probably not post while wathcing Frankie Boyle, but what the hell.
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5 euros buys two malaria nets.
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On August 02 2013 05:25 hp.Shell wrote:
Don't buy food for the bum.
Bums don't work because they get handouts from people so they can continue living and don't die of starvation. The only thing holding them back from making something of themselves is work. And they won't work if they can get food for free.
Seriously. Don't give money to bums, and don't buy food for them. When they get hungry enough, they can work for it.
Why exactly do you come here to write this? You know nothing about the homeless people in his city.
They certainly aren't happy or successful people. Many don't have any friends in my experience.
And it certainly isn't a choice.
So why do you sound like you envy them for getting charity?
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On August 01 2013 21:17 HaRuHi wrote:
Burn it! Money is evil.
By destroying it, you will counteract inflation and make everyone a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny tinsy little bit richer, ergo more evil.
So don`t burn it, keep it, never spend it.
Infact, be like bill gates, but don't spend your money, increasing inflation to a point where money is worthless, and the world is free of all evil.
But if you have so much money, would you still be so good in your heart to follow through, won`t all that money corrupt you just like everyone else?
Hell, whos to say what is evil and what not, define evil, define good, with enough money, you can set the rules, with five dollars you can start saving for more dollars.
haha, this made me laugh
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Find the most intelligent women you can
buy a box of condoms with the 5 dollars and pop holes in them
make intelligent children in secret
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