What Would You Do With $100?
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What do our plans for spending $100 reveal about us and the buying power of money? Lesley Curwen travels to Washington DC where the $100 note is printed. She also meets a former drug user, a former scientist turned entrepreneur, a hospital doctor in Zimbabwe and a maid to find out how they would spend $100.
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| 0:00.0 | What would you do with a hundred dollars? |
| 0:05.0 | What would you do with a hundred dollars? |
| 0:08.0 | What would you do with a hundred dollars? I'm mostly |
| 0:15.6 | Cohen and as part of the money and power season here on the BBC World Service |
| 0:19.9 | I've been asking people from different parts of the world that same question. |
| 0:24.4 | We can't actually give people money, it's an imaginary $100. |
| 0:29.6 | But what do the answers reveal about us, where we live, and the buying power of money. |
| 0:37.0 | I need dollar, dollar, dollar, that's what I need. |
| 0:40.0 | If you have a $100 bill and you break it, you might as well count it already spent because it doesn't go far here. |
| 0:46.0 | If I was given $100 now, I would keep that money in a safe place. I would never think of putting that $100 in a bank. |
| 0:56.0 | It just then feels like, hey, it's serendipity and I run into this. |
| 1:03.4 | I wasn't expecting it. |
| 1:04.5 | Just do something for me where I can just relax for a bit |
| 1:07.2 | and just do nothing. |
| 1:10.8 | I will share it with my friends, have a party, |
| 1:13.5 | share the happiness. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | I need dollar, dollar, dollar, there's what I need. |
| 1:20.0 | Hey, hey, well I need |
| 1:22.0 | dollar, dollar, it's worth. I'm surrounded by millions of paper dollars. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm surrounded by millions of paper dollars |
| 1:30.6 | here in the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. |
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