When I was eleven, I had a theory that there was exactly so much money in the world that you could pay for every single thing that exists on Earth. But there was a problem: while both the money and the things themselves were considered valuable, only the things had actual value - the value of money was only symbolic. So our economic system assumed that there was twice as much wealth in the world than there actually was. This made the system inherently unstable and created a need to devalue money and property. That was my explanation for inflation.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- When I was a little kid I used to believe that tissue paper was money and that you could have a box of money.Anon
- I used to belive that if you went up to an ATM it would just give you money out that is not your own money.Anon
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- I used to believe that you had to "buy" your job. The more money you paid, the better the job. — Duke
- When I was kid I used to believe that I had to earn enough money to have one of everything that existed.Anon
- I used to think that money from ATM machines were free :p— qwerty