>>Economics is not rocket science. It isn’t that hard to understand supply and demand.<<
And yet, you nor the OP have that understanding.
I think you do not understand communist China.
You live in a theoretical bubble. IMHO. Eyes stubbornly closed. Willfully determined not to understand anything, but your own part of the elephant.
You may understand that part of the elephant well.
Yet there is much, you refuse to see.
There's a simple way to teach economics. Go back to the days of cave men. Tell them they are free to do anything they want other than stealing from or hurting/killing each other. And no one can force them to do any thing. They will end up recreating economic theory.. free of liberal bs..