With Economics it's almost as though wishfulness moves graphs. In economics the variables are endless, data is never absolute. It's the most fascinating of disciplines
For example, you want prestigious, well paid work with something like the Hungarian Institute for International Affairs. It is or was a government funded think tank, and is sometimes mistaken for the Danube Institute which has its headquarters on the site of an SS Casino in Budapest.
One view of the Danube Institute runs this way : a post-liberal organization exploring and promoting the arguments against democratic elites by promoting the arguments for autocratic elites.
If we call them Post-Liberals our definition remains : Uneasy or fearful of Democracy. If we introduce autocrat to the mix of our thinking it's easy enough to think Neo Fascist Intellectuals.
Not much further to go and we have the tragedy of an unquestioning Billionaire Worship. With that sort of autocracy coming down from the mountain starts happening demand stagnates and we're back to Castle Building, the Guild System and the Statute of Laborers of 1351.