In the 8th grade we were having a class discussion about poverty and this one guy raises his hand and says "Why doesn't the gov. just print more money?" We're all like "huh?" And he continues all sure of himself "They have the machines to do it, why don't they just make more money?"
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to think that money from ATM machines were free :p— qwerty
- When I was little I used to believe that there was a man sitting inside ATM machines giving you your money.— Kazza
- I used to think that ATM machines just gave out free money when you needed it. Ahhh if only...Anon
- 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
- when I was little I believed that if I put a white stone under the pillow with my tooth I make more moneyAnon