Ordinary everyday language is made from vested economic interests. Whether children are taught economics or not, is a matter of public policy about which children are supposed to grow up into which adults.
For example, we speak of "ethnic rights", "religious freedom", "freedoms of ( cultural ) expression and association", often in relation to some sort of legislation ( law ). Private life centres around such concepts, correspondingly, "I eat ethnic food F, and plays sports ST", "I practice religion R", "I ingest and think about arts and letters AL", "I enjoy friends and family FF, and buy goods G and services SE". Very few private interests fall outside these subjects.
The public institutions established around these private interests are many, and romantic, but the narrative often cuts off there, and it is hidden from innocents what, the economic implications of such laws and institutions, are. So it is a very old hat, but generally a useful reminder : most of our common lives are lived in constructed worlds, and the underlying value may or may not be ceded maximally to the members of such institutions, rather than to the maintainers of such institutions who may not themselves be obvious.
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