Never forget that the same people lecturing you on ‘muh basic economics’ also think:

• austerity literally for austerity’s sake is the most economically sound idea

• protectionism is good

• Income inequality is good and porky can handle all the consumer spending all by himself

• trickle-down will start working any second now

• we should subsidize oil

• car-centric infrastructure is our top priority and walkable cities with public transportation is the only form of ‘austerity’ they don’t like

• that we should keep the number of participants in the economy as small as humanly possible because “muh efficiency”