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When you want your message to reach the masses, you have to oversimplify, otherwise it gets bogged down in details that ultimately may not even matter. People are having trouble with basic cost of living: shelter, healthcare, education, and even food. Focusing so heavily on numbers and graphs is how you get clowns claiming that it's just a "vibecession" just because some dumb metric like GDP or their arbitrary basket of goods looks fine, meanwhile these people can't afford the basics.
The problem is that the field of economics is biased so heavily towards policies that benefit the rich because that is how you get funding. Economists are largely in servitude to the rich and that is why they consider an effective tax on the rich "bad economics". What these past decades have clearly shown that catering to the rich does not work. Why do you think they're so vehemently against a wealth tax? If it was so ineffective then they wouldn't care about a wealth tax getting established.
Love your reply, glad to read that we are agreed on the important things.