Economist here. This is pretty much the anti-intellectualism that everyone here is talking about and this is the opinion I’ve seen constantly on Lemmy.

Most people have no idea what it is that I do and think it’s something to do with making billionaires more money. It isn’t and it never has been and it hasn’t been for anyone that I’ve kept in contact with for many of my classes.

You don’t have to be involved in financial matters to be an economist either. We’re more involved in finding out root causes and impacts in certain fields.