[AlexandrB]

I love how the parent stakes out several moral positions but tries to present them as objective truth or just “the way things are” with no evidence presented. Clever.

In my experience, once you get past the basics, economics is largely about dressing up ideology in the trappings of science. More generously, economics seems to be most similar to philosophy with competing schools of thought that differ primarily in what assumptions and axioms they choose when modeling human behavior.

[p1necone]

This seems to be a very common tactic with American right wingers (on the internet at least) - speak/write as if the actually controversial/differing parts of your belief are obviously true, and only go into detail on what logically follows from those axioms.