$5 won't wake everyone but
$5 won't wake everyone but it's a start - it will nudge a few folks into wakefulness and events will continue to do so until it reaches sufficient numbers to achieve critical mass.
The progression of current events is in some ways similar to the motion of a pendulum. You can push it a long way in one direction, but ultimately it always swings back the other way. I wouldn't recommend standing in the pendulum's path when that happens.