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I'll start this off by saying that I work in a very strange company. Our CEO has a very clear vision that culture inside the company is the most important variable that drives our business to success. This culture takes on a plethora of different challenges, and one of them is something called "Change the World" wherein, you guessed it, my company is trying to literally change the world. One good deed at a time.
The amount of positive reinforcement is phenomenal at my work, and it shows. We've received numerous awards for "Best place to work in San Diego" and we're now on a campaign to try and branch out to other people, and other companies to not only network for our company, but to attempt to make the world a better place.
So people were selected at random to perform an act of kindness with a budget (this budget was provided by the company). I received $5 as my budget, and I know that doesn't seem like a lot, because it definitely didn't seem like a lot to me, but I thought about it: People in under developed countries could be helped immensely by donations such as this. I know it's cliche that NO donation is ever too small, but I really want to know what kind of impact $5 could really have on a person's life.
I thought about just taking the money and buying a bum a meal, but even then, that's one meal, for one day. I want this money to stretch as much as possible.
I've done some research, and 3for5 seems like the best option so far. Especially if I were to really campaign to get people to form a "wave" as they put it.
But I have until next week to do this, and I would like to know that this small budget did as much as it could, so please, let me know what you think would be the best way to impact the world with just $5.
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You can buy a five dollar footlong and give it to two people i guess.
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Russian Federation112 Posts
I don't know why but that kind of corporate management terrify me 
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I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation.
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Northern Ireland24687 Posts
A month of membership for Grubby's stream.
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Buy a book, grow vegetables, plant a tree.
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Sometimes band-aids stop infections and prevent death aerogear.
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Buy something pretty and give it to a plain looking girl.
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On August 01 2013 07:41 Kickboxer wrote:
Buy something pretty and give it to a plain looking girl.
Buy something plain and give it a pretty looking girl. Defy societal conventions!
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buy tons of lollies and give it to children.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
+ Show Spoiler +On August 01 2013 07:16 Kleander wrote:
I'll start this off by saying that I work in a very strange company. Our CEO has a very clear vision that culture inside the company is the most important variable that drives our business to success. This culture takes on a plethora of different challenges, and one of them is something called "Change the World" wherein, you guessed it, my company is trying to literally change the world. One good deed at a time.
The amount of positive reinforcement is phenomenal at my work, and it shows. We've received numerous awards for "Best place to work in San Diego" and we're now on a campaign to try and branch out to other people, and other companies to not only network for our company, but to attempt to make the world a better place.
So people were selected at random to perform an act of kindness with a budget (this budget was provided by the company). I received $5 as my budget, and I know that doesn't seem like a lot, because it definitely didn't seem like a lot to me, but I thought about it: People in under developed countries could be helped immensely by donations such as this. I know it's cliche that NO donation is ever too small, but I really want to know what kind of impact $5 could really have on a person's life.
I thought about just taking the money and buying a bum a meal, but even then, that's one meal, for one day. I want this money to stretch as much as possible.
I've done some research, and 3for5 seems like the best option so far. Especially if I were to really campaign to get people to form a "wave" as they put it.
But I have until next week to do this, and I would like to know that this small budget did as much as it could, so please, let me know what you think would be the best way to impact the world with just $5.
Where do you work? I live in San Diego and I must agree with your CEO about culture within a company. 
Spend that $5 on gas and go out and volunteer for something worthwhile.
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Go to Tim Horton's and buy the next next 5 people coffees. That's apparently the big craze up here right now.
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Since you have until next week, go to the casino, play whatever you think will give you the best odds and make the most out of it. And if you come out losing, then just take out $5 from your own pocket.
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On August 01 2013 07:40 Alabasern wrote:
Buy a book, grow vegetables, plant a tree.
I like the idea of planting something. If you plant something (or a few somethings) that are cheap to grow and give a lot of good seed after they flower in a few cycles you could give out a ton of free food or flowers to people you think need it. No immediate benefit, but over the course of a few seasons the impact could be massive.
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Children is my thought. Find some orphan shelter or something, arrange some sort of event, where you buy prizes for the kids with the 5 bucks. Sure, it'll cost you a lot of time, but I think that'd give a lot of fun for that meager ammount of money.
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Go buy yourself lunch, you will have accomplished the same thing. Unless you need a $5 tax write off then in that case go to a charity, get a receipt and call it a day.
I used to be quite charitable, then I grew up and saw how much abuse there is in the system by the charities and those getting it. Never Again. Enough of my paycheck already gets stolen by the state and federal government to pay for worthless people to stay home doing drugs and pumping out kids as it stands.
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On August 01 2013 07:50 Dekoth wrote:
Go buy yourself lunch, you will have accomplished the same thing. Unless you need a $5 tax write off then in that case go to a charity, get a receipt and call it a day.
I used to be quite charitable, then I grew up and saw how much abuse there is in the system by the charities and those getting it. Never Again. Enough of my paycheck already gets stolen by the state and federal government to pay for worthless people to stay home doing drugs and pumping out kids as it stands.
Oh dear.
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Given your budget, you have two options :
buy a candle in a church
buy a lottery ticket
5$... -_- I love your CEO
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The answer is pretty clear. What's the most important thing that costs money? Food (understood as food you need to not starve, not to get morbidly obese on your couch).
So you find out how you can get the most mileage from your $5 in terms of the most important thing you can buy with money, food.
Your intuitions about helping the bum were correct.
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This reminds me a lot of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Challenge where they had to maximize a profit with $5 and 2 hours.
Try and think outside the box. Think about things you can do without using the 5 dollars at all. Think about what other resources you have at your disposal aside from the 5 dollars.
Here's a write up about the Challenge http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creativityrulz/200908/the-5-challenge
Good luck!
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On August 01 2013 07:37 AeroGear wrote:
I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation.
What makes a second nipple worthwhile but a third nipple useless? Isn't the second nipple redundant? Might a third nipple add something of worth, even if it's not worth quite as much as a second nipple?
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Use that $5 to print out a bunch of something like these
![[image loading]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6rbgaFNOq1qf2g8no1_500.jpg)
And hand out for everybody
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Northern Ireland24687 Posts
On August 01 2013 07:55 IgnE wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 07:37 AeroGear wrote:
I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation. What makes a second nipple worthwhile but a third nipple useless? Isn't the second nipple redundant? Might a third nipple add something of worth, even if it's not worth quite as much as a second nipple?
Aesthetically pleasing symmetry?
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On August 01 2013 07:59 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 07:55 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:37 AeroGear wrote:
I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation. What makes a second nipple worthwhile but a third nipple useless? Isn't the second nipple redundant? Might a third nipple add something of worth, even if it's not worth quite as much as a second nipple? Aesthetically pleasing symmetry?
A single nipple at the midline achieves the same symmetry. Like a single penis on the midline.
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Northern Ireland24687 Posts
On August 01 2013 08:01 IgnE wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 07:59 Wombat_NI wrote:On August 01 2013 07:55 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:37 AeroGear wrote:
I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation. What makes a second nipple worthwhile but a third nipple useless? Isn't the second nipple redundant? Might a third nipple add something of worth, even if it's not worth quite as much as a second nipple? Aesthetically pleasing symmetry? A single nipple at the midline achieves the same symmetry. Like a single penis on the midline.
I had thought of this, but in the case of women I figure a single centrally placed breast would be inferior to the current setup. Nipples for us men are entirely redundant too I suppose!
I shall strive not to derail any further, but this discussion did amuse me.
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On August 01 2013 07:40 Alabasern wrote:
Buy a book, grow vegetables, plant a tree.
Good idea actually.
Buy seeds/fertilizer and plant it in your company's garden
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On August 01 2013 08:03 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 08:01 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:59 Wombat_NI wrote:On August 01 2013 07:55 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:37 AeroGear wrote:
I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation. What makes a second nipple worthwhile but a third nipple useless? Isn't the second nipple redundant? Might a third nipple add something of worth, even if it's not worth quite as much as a second nipple? Aesthetically pleasing symmetry? A single nipple at the midline achieves the same symmetry. Like a single penis on the midline. I had thought of this, but in the case of women I figure a single centrally placed breast would be inferior to the current setup. Nipples for us men are entirely redundant too I suppose! I shall strive not to derail any further, but this discussion did amuse me.
Why though? Redundancy? One breast fails and the other can still produce milk? What about multiple nipples on one centrally located breast? That would alleviate nipple chafing from over-sucking. And three seems only marginally less useful a number than two for that.
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You can try something like the people did with the red paperclip trades on craigslist. Who eventually traded the red paperclip for betters stuff each time and got up to a house or something.
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Where do you work and how do I get a job there?
Edit: You probably shouldn't even bother with the $5 actually. I think the idea is what can you do, with almost no resources, not, what can you do with $5.
Setting up a fundraiser, or some kind of donation for doctor's without border's or adopt a child, or ask people for old clothing, furniture, glasses, anything, and give them to homeless people in your community...
There is lots of things that you can do.
Maybe start a petition to ask your CEO for a huge donation for a good cause and get people to sign it so your CEO can not say no.
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On August 01 2013 08:06 IgnE wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 08:03 Wombat_NI wrote:On August 01 2013 08:01 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:59 Wombat_NI wrote:On August 01 2013 07:55 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:37 AeroGear wrote:
I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation. What makes a second nipple worthwhile but a third nipple useless? Isn't the second nipple redundant? Might a third nipple add something of worth, even if it's not worth quite as much as a second nipple? Aesthetically pleasing symmetry? A single nipple at the midline achieves the same symmetry. Like a single penis on the midline. I had thought of this, but in the case of women I figure a single centrally placed breast would be inferior to the current setup. Nipples for us men are entirely redundant too I suppose! I shall strive not to derail any further, but this discussion did amuse me. Why though? Redundancy? One breast fails and the other can still produce milk? What about multiple nipples on one centrally located breast? That would alleviate nipple chafing from over-sucking. And three seems only marginally less useful a number than two for that.
Well, seems to us. I mean the simplest explanation in that we evolved this configuration because in some way it was more efficient, albeit it's possible that there are more efficient layouts possible but it was the first one that achieved a standard of adequacy for the purpose.
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Invest it and in a few years, it can return as $6.30.
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Send it back and say this liberal positive mumbo jumbo does nothing.
Step 2: Get fired
Step 3: Go to Africa and save the children!
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Don't be limited by the money.
Do a good deed with just your own person. Then find a way to spend the 5 dollars into it.
Like volunteer to help out in an orphanage or kindergarten for 1 day, by small prizes for the kids to win. Or buy pet food for an animal shelter.
The best thing you can do probably involves a couple of hours of your own time.
On August 01 2013 08:12 MrRicewife wrote:
Where do you work and how do I get a job there?
Edit: You probably shouldn't even bother with the $5 actually. I think the idea is what can you do, with almost no resources, not, what can you do with $5.
Setting up a fundraiser, or some kind of donation for doctor's without border's or adopt a child, or ask people for old clothing, furniture, glasses, anything, and give them to homeless people in your community...
There is lots of things that you can do.
Maybe start a petition to ask your CEO for a huge donation for a good cause and get people to sign it so your CEO can not say no.
This guy is smart. Invest the 5 dollars in a big ass sign "Donate Here".
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$5 isn't a whole hell of a lot obviously so generally I don't think doing something in there here and now with it is going to cause much of a ripple effect. Can you invest it? =P
About the only thing you can do with it right now is give it to a charity and hope for the best or do something to put a smile on as many people's faces as possible and hope lightening people's moods casts a spell of good will and pay it forwardness for a while.
The planting some stuff idea is a good one too. Buy a bunch of veggies, grow them, and donate them to a soup kitchen. The $5 would in theory keep itself growing forever as long as you can keep plants alive.
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On August 01 2013 08:13 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 08:06 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 08:03 Wombat_NI wrote:On August 01 2013 08:01 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:59 Wombat_NI wrote:On August 01 2013 07:55 IgnE wrote:On August 01 2013 07:37 AeroGear wrote:
I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation. What makes a second nipple worthwhile but a third nipple useless? Isn't the second nipple redundant? Might a third nipple add something of worth, even if it's not worth quite as much as a second nipple? Aesthetically pleasing symmetry? A single nipple at the midline achieves the same symmetry. Like a single penis on the midline. I had thought of this, but in the case of women I figure a single centrally placed breast would be inferior to the current setup. Nipples for us men are entirely redundant too I suppose! I shall strive not to derail any further, but this discussion did amuse me. Why though? Redundancy? One breast fails and the other can still produce milk? What about multiple nipples on one centrally located breast? That would alleviate nipple chafing from over-sucking. And three seems only marginally less useful a number than two for that. Well, seems to us. I mean the simplest explanation in that we evolved this configuration because in some way it was more efficient, albeit it's possible that there are more efficient layouts possible but it was the first one that achieved a standard of adequacy for the purpose.
Or two breasts are visually reminiscent of buttocks and was a sexual advantage for attracting mates.
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On August 01 2013 08:11 MarlieChurphy wrote:
You can try something like the people did with the red paperclip trades on craigslist. Who eventually traded the red paperclip for betters stuff each time and got up to a house or something.
That's a "solution" that doesn't actually "create" anything, but only takes incrementally from others to accumulate wealth, which it seems is exactly the opposite of what this company seems to champion.
How about using the $5 to spend on public transportation to take you to a homeless shelter / soup kitchen where you can spend the day volunteering ?
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Lots of good ideas. I really do like the idea that it's not about the money, and I also like the idea of buying seeds and turning them into food that will continuously grow into food for people who can't afford it.
As for whatever choice I end up making I will post results on here so you can see what happened.
As for my business, I work at Productivity Associates Inc. We're a small help desk (about a hundred employees) that does technical support for business around the United States and parts of Europe.
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Use the $5 to buy lunch with a homeless person. Sit down and talk with him for a while too, that can be just as valuable if not more so than the lunch.
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On August 01 2013 09:57 Najda wrote:
Use the $5 to buy lunch with a homeless person. Sit down and talk with him for a while too, that can be just as valuable if not more so than the lunch.
I've found that too in my experience. They're often lonely as hell, I mean people walk past them all day, maybe give them cash but don't actually seek to engage in conversation
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Buy one of those "how to be rich and successful and win at life" pamphlets that you see advertised online from time to time (the sketchier shit you're doing online, the more often you see these ads). Make thousands of free copies at schools and libraries. Then stand at the street corner handing them out. Congrats, you're now making thousands of people insanely rich & successful, all for only $5!
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You should make a donation to The Human Fund
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Buy blanket/s and give to homeless
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Buy some condoms for Kwark. The world will be a better place if he does not reproduce, and it's not like he will ever need more than three of them 
On a serious note: you could probably pay some kid to work for a whole day for $5. I do not know what that labour could achieve that would improve the world, but I am sure that you could do more with a day of kid labour than by just giving food to a homeless person.
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Ramen noodles on sale at 4 for $1 buck.
Thats 20 packs of ramen noodles.
Or you could buy a whole bag of White Castle and give it to the first homeless beggar you see.
Hint - Whatever you buy - explain what you are doing to the manager. You might get some unexpected additional charity for the cause.
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With $5, I can't even buy 3 baguettes at the closest boulangerie to my place. It's a fucking expensive shop :'(
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I have heard of a system where you give money to someone trying to get back on his feet, and when he does he will pay back into the charity and it will go to someone else. In that way it's like an intrest-free charitable loan.
Theoretically it could help a lot of people, but $5 would have to target developing nations, and it's very difficult to make sure the money goes somewhere useful.
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I would buy a couple of bags of lollipops, and take them to an orphanage, or shelter that had a lot of children, and let them enjoy something they might not get to often.
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$5 dollar foot longs aren't even 5 dollars. Its SO LAME.
Its really difficult to say. Probably the safest route is to just donate it to your preferred charity of choice. But if you have to choose, I would try to find the cheapest food you can buy and then donate it to your local food bank.
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On August 01 2013 07:42 75 wrote:
buy tons of CANDY and give it to children.
but do it for kids in a hospital
ideally a ward where the kids have stayed there for a while
ive been there... spent months upon end as a kid in a hospital
getting anything outside of nasty hospital food is great, and candy, every kid loves candy. it'd lighten up their day.
they might not remember you 200 years from now, but the impact it made, it makes a difference
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Using a $5 bill, roll it tightly into a long thin cylinder and tuck it into a pneumatic nail gun. Use said nail gun and launch the $5 bill at 1,400 feet per second. I guarantee you will have great impact on whatever you hit.
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This was actually an exercise done in a class at Stanford.
The conclusion that most people came to is that $5 isn't really helpful. Try to do what you can with no budget at all.
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Invest the $5 and then help more people with the hundreds you end up with in a couple decades. Not to mention the help you are giving whoever you invest that $5 in for decades. You help in two ways.
Or better yet, spend the $5 printing out flyers or signs asking for more donations. Then invest those donations, or spend them seeking even more donations. Go for a snowball effect.
Investment is better than spending, despite what presidents may tell you during recessions.
Of course, another way to look at this is that time is money. If you spend an hour thinking about and spending this $5, you could theoretically have used that hour to earn more than $5, so from an economist point of view, you are actually LOSING money for the world at large due to the negative opportunity cost.
You could spend the $5 writing up a report explaining to your boss why this exercise is actually negative opportunity cost and is therefore actually detracting from the global wealth and therefore causing harm instead of good, and if he takes it to heart you can claim that you are increasing global wealth by eliminating such future exercises in your company.
Economics is fun and interesting, isn't it?
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Buy a pen and a block of notes
Find things to compliment people on
Write these compliments down and hand it over to them
with $5 that's a ton of notes you can write, a ton of messages you can give, and a ton of appreciation you will create
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On August 01 2013 10:50 Artax wrote:
Invest the $5 and then help more people with the hundreds you end up with in a couple decades. Not to mention the help you are giving whoever you invest that $5 in for decades. You help in two ways.
Or better yet, spend the $5 printing out flyers or signs asking for more donations. Then invest those donations, or spend them seeking even more donations. Go for a snowball effect.
Investment is better than spending, despite what presidents may tell you during recessions.
Of course, another way to look at this is that time is money. If you spend an hour thinking about and spending this $5, you could theoretically have used that hour to earn more than $5, so from an economist point of view, you are actually LOSING money for the world at large due to the negative opportunity cost.
You could spend the $5 writing up a report explaining to your boss why this exercise is actually negative opportunity cost and is therefore actually detracting from the global wealth and therefore causing harm instead of good, and if he takes it to heart you can claim that you are increasing global wealth by eliminating such future exercises in your company.
Economics is fun and interesting, isn't it?
How is investment necessarily better than spending? I'm not economically literate but that seems a bold claim
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in germany theres a phone commercial where a guy randomly places simple (a rope and a plank) swings in the middle of the city on stuff like light posts etc. and in the video people seem to be really enjoying that! :D
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Imagine if the winning team had prostituted themselves and had that as their presentation
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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!
Yup, just want to highlight this post by the Caliph . Its a common leadership/entrepreneurial test used by some business schools and crappy tv programs like the apprentice. lol.
The $5 is commonly a distraction to limit your choices. Nothing says you have to use just the $5 or even use it at all. Think of the most good you can do without a dollar or any limitation and you can do so much for the poor.
Assemble a clothing drive amongst your friends, clear out pantries of food you guys don't like, get local f&b businesses to donate leftovers to the poor, structure a plan to donate leftover unneeded surplus of your business to the appropriate disadvantaged groups. Costs nothing yet you do a lot more than trying to make the $5 grow into something that will have an impact. People undervalue what time and manpower can do for charity.
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Go to an orphanage, children's hospital etc. and entertain the kids for a day. Bring 5 bucks worth of lollies while you're at it and hand them out as you go. As other people have said, 5 dollars is such a small amount that the exercise really isn't about how much money you can throw at a problem, it's about how you can better the world through your actions.
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Donation of money is not the answer. Ever heard of the saying "Teach people how to fish. Don't give them a piece of fish"?
Donation is giving them a piece of fish. Really.
How about donate a BOOK instead. Purchase a book worth $5 and donate it.
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Changing the world doesn't require money, it's effort and willpower that are the main forces behind change. I dare say you can do as much good without the 5 dollars, than with 5 dollars. Constricting yourself by money will only make you focus on what you can do with those 5 dollars, instead of what you can do with mere effort.
If I were you I would try to do good somewhere by sheer effort, and give those 5 dollars back to your boss to make a point.
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1. Buy $4,50 worth of multi-colored post-its
2. Buy a $0,50 pen
3. Write " : ) " on post-its and post around the office, neighborhood, parks, bus and train stations, w/e
4. ????
5. Profit
you'll be making the world happior
gg no re
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Northern Ireland24687 Posts
On August 01 2013 11:46 Shival wrote:
Changing the world doesn't require money, it's effort and willpower that are the main forces behind change. I dare say you can do as much good without the 5 dollars, than with 5 dollars. Constricting yourself by money will only make you focus on what you can do with those 5 dollars, instead of what you can do with mere effort.
If I were you I would try to do good somewhere by sheer effort, and give those 5 dollars back to your boss to make a point.
Good point actually. It's why so many of the Facebook social justice campaigns are if anything counter-productive, people hit 'like' and think that is sufficient to effect change.
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On August 01 2013 12:11 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 11:46 Shival wrote:
Changing the world doesn't require money, it's effort and willpower that are the main forces behind change. I dare say you can do as much good without the 5 dollars, than with 5 dollars. Constricting yourself by money will only make you focus on what you can do with those 5 dollars, instead of what you can do with mere effort.
If I were you I would try to do good somewhere by sheer effort, and give those 5 dollars back to your boss to make a point. Good point actually. It's why so many of the Facebook social justice campaigns are if anything counter-productive, people hit 'like' and think that is sufficient to effect change.
its working for esports. i think :D
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Growing a tree is prolly ur best bet.
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I like the area of buying 5$ worth of seeds (pick a tree that is much needed in the area) and find an area to take some time and plant an acre or two of trees. That would have a huge impact down the road man.
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On August 01 2013 07:47 Foblos wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 07:40 Alabasern wrote:
Buy a book, grow vegetables, plant a tree. I like the idea of planting something. If you plant something (or a few somethings) that are cheap to grow and give a lot of good seed after they flower in a few cycles you could give out a ton of free food or flowers to people you think need it. No immediate benefit, but over the course of a few seasons the impact could be massive.
You could take that 5 dollars as a symbolic amount and accomplish the rest with some hard work:
1) talk to a kindergarden near your living area and ask them if they would like to help planting some seeds and if they know a place (if you don't).
2) buy some seeds of trees or flowers or a small tree (can you get one for $5? :/ )
3) take half a day off to *do good* and mess around with a bunch of annoying kids that throw earth around all the time while havin their parents provide lemonade and cake (win for you )
4) go to work unshowered and show your boss the commitment you have
edit: wow, that's also a good idea!
On August 01 2013 11:56 JP Dayne wrote:
1. Buy $4,50 worth of multi-colored post-its
2. Buy a $0,50 pen
3. Write " : ) " on post-its and post around the office, neighborhood, parks, bus and train stations, w/e
4. ????
5. Profit
you'll be making the world happior
gg no re
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On August 01 2013 16:59 schaf wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 07:47 Foblos wrote:On August 01 2013 07:40 Alabasern wrote:
Buy a book, grow vegetables, plant a tree. I like the idea of planting something. If you plant something (or a few somethings) that are cheap to grow and give a lot of good seed after they flower in a few cycles you could give out a ton of free food or flowers to people you think need it. No immediate benefit, but over the course of a few seasons the impact could be massive. You could take that 5 dollars as a symbolic amount and accomplish the rest with some hard work: 1) talk to a kindergarden near your living area and ask them if they would like to help planting some seeds and if they know a place (if you don't). 2) buy some seeds of trees or flowers or a small tree (can you get one for $5? :/ ) 3) take half a day off to *do good* and mess around with a bunch of annoying kids that throw earth around all the time while havin their parents provide lemonade and cake (win for you ) 4) go to work unshowered and show your boss the commitment you have edit: wow, that's also a good idea! Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 11:56 JP Dayne wrote:
1. Buy $4,50 worth of multi-colored post-its
2. Buy a $0,50 pen
3. Write " : ) " on post-its and post around the office, neighborhood, parks, bus and train stations, w/e
4. ????
5. Profit
you'll be making the world happior
gg no re
ACtually some seeds can be gotten for free if you live in a reasonably green place. It requires hardly any money, but will take a little bit of effort (digging hole, watering etc.) Prolly like a 1 hr job in all.
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On August 01 2013 12:11 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 11:46 Shival wrote:
Changing the world doesn't require money, it's effort and willpower that are the main forces behind change. I dare say you can do as much good without the 5 dollars, than with 5 dollars. Constricting yourself by money will only make you focus on what you can do with those 5 dollars, instead of what you can do with mere effort.
If I were you I would try to do good somewhere by sheer effort, and give those 5 dollars back to your boss to make a point. Good point actually. It's why so many of the Facebook social justice campaigns are if anything counter-productive, people hit 'like' and think that is sufficient to effect change.
Yeah, the five dollars are pretty useless compared to the time the OP seems to be ready to spend. Not sure what kind of salary you have at this company, but for sure 5$ corresponds to much less than the time you have spent thinking about this project already.
So realise what the most important resource here is: your time and effort.
Spend it well!
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On August 01 2013 17:05 Cascade wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 12:11 Wombat_NI wrote:On August 01 2013 11:46 Shival wrote:
Changing the world doesn't require money, it's effort and willpower that are the main forces behind change. I dare say you can do as much good without the 5 dollars, than with 5 dollars. Constricting yourself by money will only make you focus on what you can do with those 5 dollars, instead of what you can do with mere effort.
If I were you I would try to do good somewhere by sheer effort, and give those 5 dollars back to your boss to make a point. Good point actually. It's why so many of the Facebook social justice campaigns are if anything counter-productive, people hit 'like' and think that is sufficient to effect change. Yeah, the five dollars are pretty useless compared to the time the OP seems to be ready to spend. Not sure what kind of salary you have at this company, but for sure 5$ corresponds to much less than the time you have spent thinking about this project already. So realise what the most important resource here is: your time and effort. Spend it well!
i think this guy is right
keep that 5$ and do something awesome with your time and will. And if accidentally you'll need some expense - there you go.
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Clearly you got the short end of the stick here, so do something contrarian. Spend the money on yourself, perhaps in the form of a highly nutritious meal, and write up a good argument about how investing in your personal health will lead to greater returns in future productivity.
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Invest those 5$ into the stock market. Use those 5$ to earn 100$. Then reinvest 95$ to make 1900$. Reinvest 1895$, etc, until you obtain enough money to end world famine.
Or just buy a homeless person some food? I don't know. You can't do much with 5$
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On August 01 2013 07:42 75 wrote:
buy tons of lollies and give it to children.
That is not creepy at all 
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I think that your CEO is trying to get out of this for you is that the money is not important, it's your time that's important.
You can't do much with $5 but you can do quite a lot with $5 and a bunch of your time.
Obviously there's the argument that time is money and if you calculated what you're doing at your hourly rate then blahblahblah, but ignore that.
Do something that takes some time. That will have the most impact.
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On August 01 2013 07:18 phodacbiet wrote:
You can buy a five dollar footlong and give it to two people i guess.
I've given "it" to more than two women with my footlong.
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As for the $5 impact,... first, you can never know the result of your actions. You can make a good guess, but ultimately it remains a guess. Second, there is no scale for impact. Even if you wanted to measure it, you would not be able to compare two "impacts" because you are not omniscient. Finally, you can't just "go out and do good", if you actually want to do good your idea comes first, not the budget.
User was warned for this post
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Our wealth comes with a price, we rob certain areas of the world to keep our living standards high. The same happens within a country.
Giving small amounts to charity sounds like a sick joke to me, only ignorant people would feel some kind of relief (from their guilt).
OT: Idk how much you earn per hour; you could just convert the money in time and do something for the benefit of society.
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In a country where people earn about 1 dollar a day this would help them get by for 5 days...
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Buy the current humble bundle and allocate all of the 5$ in charity and get free games while doing so.
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As many have already said, the money is probably not that important. Go do some charity. Go and do a few days of full on charity work, and maybe spend that $5 either on petrol, or on water/food to keep yourself fed/hydrated during that time. Find a charity or a shelter or something that you can get to easily enough on the weekend or on a weekday, and ask to help (after work, on the weekend, both), and do it once, do it twice, see how you go. Pretty sure that's close to the best thing you can do
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How long do you have time to change something? I would buy flower seeds and plant them at well thought out places.
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Give it to a soup kitchen and help them out? they could probably feed 10 people with $5.
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It's hot out right? There should be tons of lemonade stands run by kids in your neighbourhood. Once you find a lemonade stand, wave the five dollars in the kid's face and tell him/her that it's theirs if they will just run inside their house and provide you with a clean glass. Once they leave the stand, rob them blind. Don't only take their money, but also their signs and their inventory.
After cleaning out five or six of these stands, proceed to your nearest orphanage or outreach program for kids. Provide them with your booty. Most programs won't have the extra bundle to fund six lemonade stands. And a single lemonade stand would only provide conflict given to the amount of children within these programs. Ergo, you will be a humongous boon to their organization.
Oh yeah, and then afterwards use the five bucks to treat yourself to some strawberry milk, after all it's hot out right?
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On August 01 2013 17:18 Lann555 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 07:42 75 wrote:
buy tons of lollies and give it to children. That is not creepy at all
haha, wasnt thinking about that this way.
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Every little helps for sure but consider that most charities will "absorb" a considerable amount of donations since they work pretty much as standard companies.
So basically you donate to pay the guy who took your donation that then finds someone who does the rest of the job for free using the little money left after all that.
You never know where the money actually goes sadly.
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5 bucks is approximately the price of an artificial lens used to treat someone with cataract.
I just came back from volunteering with a medical team of eye surgeons, and in just 3 days we performed 136 surgeries that restored vision for impoverished Tibetans. I should blog my trip.
5 bucks for the gift of sight... Can anyone top that?
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Buy yourself a beer, sit back and relax while the world is getting destroyed by greedy people.
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Essentially your company are asking you to maximise the social return on your investment. I'm actually doing a piece of work at the moment for my parent company which is looking at social return. Through our analysis, the area which generate the largest social return are education and working with disadvantaged people.
You can measure social return using proxies, which are basically ways to monetise benefits which are often intangible. I'll use obesity as an example.
If you could educate an obese person to improve their diet, an outside person may see the benefit as 'they get healthier' however this isnt something you can measure easily. When you break it down, there are lots of proxies which can be attached to this.
Could live longer (can you put a price on life)
Less health issues (average cost of yearly healtcare to support an obese person)
No more health checks for obese related issues (average cost of a doctors visit at X per year)
If they are now able to work (cost of benefits for one person for one year)
If you could spend your five dollars producing an educational fact sheet for your company, guestimate the number of obese people, you could say that for every $5 you spend, you could provide X amount of social return.
Obviously obesity is just one example, but maybe you could impress your company by looking into it this way.
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I'm with the soup kitchen idea. Give the soup kitchen 5 dollars. Tell them it's payment for letting you work there for a day.
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If its personal, I'd by a notebook and a pen. Write down what you do every day. At the end of the week write down one thing that you didn't do that you were capable of doing. There is only one person who can change yourself. You.
Assess yourself every day honestly. Give the book to a stranger after 60 days.
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On August 01 2013 18:09 Gendo wrote:
Every little helps for sure but consider that most charities will "absorb" a considerable amount of donations since they work pretty much as standard companies.
So basically you donate to pay the guy who took your donation that then finds someone who does the rest of the job for free using the little money left after all that.
You never know where the money actually goes sadly.
That's not entirely true. Sadly, there are charity scams that give the whole concept of charity a bad name. On the other hand, however, the lion's share of charity organizations are very transparent when it comes to the question how they spend their budget, and although every organization will have to cover overheads, many are very efficient in their spending. Just as an example, Doctors without borders have 89% spending efficiency. That's a perfectly reasonable quota, and it's nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to well-established and well-managed charity organizations, which commonly achieve a spending efficiency around the 90% mark.
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On August 01 2013 18:24 Shottaz wrote:
Essentially your company are asking you to maximise the social return on your investment. I'm actually doing a piece of work at the moment for my parent company which is looking at social return. Through our analysis, the area which generate the largest social return are education and working with disadvantaged people.
You can measure social return using proxies, which are basically ways to monetise benefits which are often intangible. I'll use obesity as an example.
If you could educate an obese person to improve their diet, an outside person may see the benefit as 'they get healthier' however this isnt something you can measure easily. When you break it down, there are lots of proxies which can be attached to this.
Could live longer (can you put a price on life)
Less health issues (average cost of yearly healtcare to support an obese person)
No more health checks for obese related issues (average cost of a doctors visit at X per year)
If they are now able to work (cost of benefits for one person for one year)
If you could spend your five dollars producing an educational fact sheet for your company, guestimate the number of obese people, you could say that for every $5 you spend, you could provide X amount of social return.
Obviously obesity is just one example, but maybe you could impress your company by looking into it this way.
Poor example, its better for the system if people die early. However if you use Quality of Live as a metric you are right. (Its a general problem in the healthcare sector when new models are developed to e.g: diagnose illnesses or tele medicine, cause its gonna cost the system big time)
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On August 01 2013 18:15 EngrishTeacher wrote:
5 bucks is approximately the price of an artificial lens used to treat someone with cataract.
I just came back from volunteering with a medical team of eye surgeons, and in just 3 days we performed 136 surgeries that restored vision for impoverished Tibetans. I should blog my trip.
5 bucks for the gift of sight... Can anyone top that?
Well done mate. I guess not.
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5 dollars has unlimited potential. money can make money, whether via gambling, investing, and such.
but since you only have one week i suppose performing some kind of show to raise money for charity involving magic tricks using things you can buy for less then 5 $ might be good. even if you dont know magic people will probably appreciate the effort? i have no idea, i have never been involved in charities. good luck dude
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On August 01 2013 07:16 Kleander wrote:
I'll start this off by saying that I work in a very strange company. Our CEO has a very clear vision that culture inside the company is the most important variable that drives our business to success. This culture takes on a plethora of different challenges, and one of them is something called "Change the World" wherein, you guessed it, my company is trying to literally change the world. One good deed at a time.
The amount of positive reinforcement is phenomenal at my work, and it shows. We've received numerous awards for "Best place to work in San Diego" and we're now on a campaign to try and branch out to other people, and other companies to not only network for our company, but to attempt to make the world a better place.
So people were selected at random to perform an act of kindness with a budget (this budget was provided by the company). I received $5 as my budget, and I know that doesn't seem like a lot, because it definitely didn't seem like a lot to me, but I thought about it: People in under developed countries could be helped immensely by donations such as this. I know it's cliche that NO donation is ever too small, but I really want to know what kind of impact $5 could really have on a person's life.
I thought about just taking the money and buying a bum a meal, but even then, that's one meal, for one day. I want this money to stretch as much as possible.
I've done some research, and 3for5 seems like the best option so far. Especially if I were to really campaign to get people to form a "wave" as they put it.
But I have until next week to do this, and I would like to know that this small budget did as much as it could, so please, let me know what you think would be the best way to impact the world with just $5.
If your CEO wanted to do something good he should spend away his millions of dollars in hedge funds. He should sell his Porsche and Mercedes and lead a plain lifestyle more in accordance with nature and its resources.
All your boss does is some PR campaign an agenda to mask his real one and that is making money and more money.
It is hypocrite.
You want to help people in under developed countries ? Well you could also start helping people in the US, where some sleep under bridges, can't afford a doctor or live in slums. Go send your 5$ bill to the Major of Detroit. You don't have to go to Africa to see people suffering.
Go spend it on some educational program in the US to bring rationalism and science to the bible belt. I bet there are enough programs or schools in the US who need funding.
Sry, but I find the whole idea stupid. I mean if you donate money from your own money its one thing or when the company donates money to a project, but if the company gives you money to donate their goal is not donation ...
Or you could take the 5 dollars and put it in a bank. Tell them to save it there for 2000 Years and compound interest will increase its worth making it worth approximately 150 times the earth in solid gold.
Then tell them to use this money for charity and donations and you will have no one suffering from hunger, dying of treatable diseases and what not. You have saved the future you are a hero.
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On August 01 2013 19:27 gingerfluffmuff wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 18:15 EngrishTeacher wrote:
5 bucks is approximately the price of an artificial lens used to treat someone with cataract.
I just came back from volunteering with a medical team of eye surgeons, and in just 3 days we performed 136 surgeries that restored vision for impoverished Tibetans. I should blog my trip.
5 bucks for the gift of sight... Can anyone top that? Well done mate. I guess not.
While I appreciate your response to my last post. To call mine a poor example and then applaud this one is rather odd.
$5 buys you an artifical lens...
$x for the flights to tibet
$x for accomodation during the stay
$x for the equipment needed to perform the operation
$x for the cost of the medical staff
It's not as simple as $5 dollars for the gift of sight.
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For $5 you could print a whole lot of useful information; you could encourage others to do good deeds, you could publish information that could be vital for people in need... etc etc
don't waste your money on food
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use that 5 dollars in a casino, work your way up playing blackjack until you have 500 dollars, buy 250 cans of soup and give it to a homeless shelter
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Tip that 5 dollars to some hard working waiter/ress who really deserves it.
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Buy a knife for the 5$ and stab evil people in the name of your company.
If the knife is cheaper, maybe a little cape with your companies logo is in the budget aswell?
Your superhero sign could be:
GG (as in Good Guy)
sponsored by Your Company©
//sarcasm
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.
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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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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 Ireland24687 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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Northern Ireland24687 Posts
On August 02 2013 07:21 HeavenS wrote:Show nested quote +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
Haha, didn't see his post. Articulated what I said but much better, I'm envious!
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Easy. Seeds. They pay for themselves exponentially.
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On August 01 2013 07:42 Souma wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On August 01 2013 07:16 Kleander wrote:
I'll start this off by saying that I work in a very strange company. Our CEO has a very clear vision that culture inside the company is the most important variable that drives our business to success. This culture takes on a plethora of different challenges, and one of them is something called "Change the World" wherein, you guessed it, my company is trying to literally change the world. One good deed at a time.
The amount of positive reinforcement is phenomenal at my work, and it shows. We've received numerous awards for "Best place to work in San Diego" and we're now on a campaign to try and branch out to other people, and other companies to not only network for our company, but to attempt to make the world a better place.
So people were selected at random to perform an act of kindness with a budget (this budget was provided by the company). I received $5 as my budget, and I know that doesn't seem like a lot, because it definitely didn't seem like a lot to me, but I thought about it: People in under developed countries could be helped immensely by donations such as this. I know it's cliche that NO donation is ever too small, but I really want to know what kind of impact $5 could really have on a person's life.
I thought about just taking the money and buying a bum a meal, but even then, that's one meal, for one day. I want this money to stretch as much as possible.
I've done some research, and 3for5 seems like the best option so far. Especially if I were to really campaign to get people to form a "wave" as they put it.
But I have until next week to do this, and I would like to know that this small budget did as much as it could, so please, let me know what you think would be the best way to impact the world with just $5. Where do you work? I live in San Diego and I must agree with your CEO about culture within a company. Spend that $5 on gas and go out and volunteer for something worthwhile.
I really like this idea. If you do and get several man-hours of work done that'll multiply your $5. Stuff like food doesn't multiply the value of the $5.
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When I was a child my father gave me $2 and told me to turn it into profit. I bought Nintendo Power magazines and ripped out the posters, sold the posters for $5 and the magazines for $2. I made about $22, I gave my father back the $2 and then decided to change what I dealt in.
I started to buy and sell Nintendo Games, I ended up having over 60 NES games by the time I was around 11-13(Not sure on the age.)
My advice would be buy something for 5 dollars or less, that you know you can get more money for somewhere else. Continue to form a profit this way. Then you can do a lot more with that "$5" you started with as it turned a profit.
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Just give it to some kid that looks sad on the playground (without looking like a creep). Make him happy, worth more than moneys
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On August 02 2013 11:16 MaxField wrote:
Just give it to some kid that looks sad on the playground (without looking like a creep). Make him happy, worth more than moneys
How do you do that without looking like a creep?
Just hand him $5 and walk away?
give him a wrapped present with $5?
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Buy someone the $5 Bisu Mirror! Everytime they try to look at themselves Bisu appears instead!
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Straw Millionaire
First thought that came to mind.
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On August 02 2013 11:18 3FFA wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2013 11:16 MaxField wrote:
Just give it to some kid that looks sad on the playground (without looking like a creep). Make him happy, worth more than moneys How do you do that without looking like a creep? Just hand him $5 and walk away? give him a wrapped present with $5?
Naw bro, one bill wont make a child happy, I am talking about like 100 nickles. You give a kid a bag full of 100 coins.... that kid is smiling. IF you wear any kind of costume, it makes it less creepy.
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Can do alot with 5 if you also put in some work yourself.
Can register a domain maybe (not sure how much that is but i guess its like 5-20?) and then make an awesome website for charitys or something like that.
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There was that one show, coupon shoppers or something were they coupon clip and by hundreds of dollars of food for like 10$ or something. You should try something like that.
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