Micro Payments
Via j January 13, 2009


Micro Payments

Shanghai, 2008

The cost of inflating your own tire, the manner of payment – a coin thrown into the tub of water used to check where the air is escaping from.

Contexts in which it might be considered petty to ask for small amounts of payment, and the social ways to make the exchange of money more palatable.

Related: ever smaller units of goods in Brazil and India.

(via Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect.)

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