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If there was anything useful the banker could get for $5 then he would buy it himself. The argument for giving to the poorest people is not that they are the most deserving, or even that they are suffering the most, but rather that they are the cheapest to help.
No, he could. Whether he would do it is another issue.
Moreover, the relationship between money and happiness is weak.