coup de l'argent

No electricity, no phones, no TV. No iPod's, no fridges, no freezers and no cookoo clocks . No Internet, no radio, no bedrooms. No big homes, no fancy cars, no flashy clothes.

Inflation, exchange rates, and financial markets mean nothing to them. Why should it?



We came across these Bedouins on Sealine beach, an hour south of Doha, in Qatar. It's a place where the paved road literally just stops into a vast duning desert. You must go by 4x4, camel or by foot to reach any further. We saw them and their camels and were immediately drawn into their company. We talked through our smiles; communicated through our laughs. I showed them some magic tricks, they made us fresh mint tea. It doesn't get any better than that.

The illusion and transparency of what money really is, does and represents reveals itself clearly through these people. It's all a material mirage.

A mirage, by the way, is something these men do know of.