All you can buy for $5
Recession. Credit crunch. Gifting season. What better time to discuss bargains.
For the past few months, Nokia’s design and research team have been hosting an interesting online initiative to compare what $5 can buy you around the world. Our top 3 picks from the submissions:
- black and white passport photos taken with a box camera on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan
- Bolly printed mud-flaps for autorickshaws (or tuk-tuks, if you haven’t been to India), from Ahmedabad, India
- a pint of Tsingtao plus a posse of singing-dancing ladies in the ‘VIP room’ at a bar in Handan, China
However, more recent news suggests $5 might well pay the 2009 salaries of the CEOs of GM, Ford, Chrysler and AIG. And we’d still have a dollar left for the piggy-bank.
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