How I Accidentally Taught My Kids the Value of Counterfeiting

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Matthew Kent
4 min readAug 19, 2022

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My seven year-old son is obsessed with the Avengers. His favorite movie is Captain America: Civil War.

For a while now he has wanted to travel to Berlin on a Quinjet like they do in the film.

The other day he asked my wife how much a Quinjet costs. Instead of explaining that…

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