Economics

The masses believe that economics is all about money. It's not. It's just as much about behavior. It's the study of how people spend their time and how they divvy up resources and how they make the decisions that they make. It's about studying how people make stuff, use stuff, and move stuff around...but it's also about money, at least to the extent that money equates to wealth and material prosperity.

There are two main branches of economics: macroeconomics, which looks at how the principles of econ work on a large scale, nations, and societies and the like...and microeconomics, which looks at smaller-scale applications. Like how you decide whether to pay up for Red Lobster, or just heat up the fish sticks that got stuck to the bottom of the freezer.

So yeah...macroeconomics is the big stuff. The national economy. Global trade. Interstellar currency exchange. Total aggregate demand and supply as it relates to inflation, gross domestic product, national income, interest rates, unemployment, and all kinds of changes to price levels and liquidity.

Micro is all about the individual corporation, either small or big businesses...or families and individuals.

And by the way, those recording devices the government has implanted in your brain? Yeah…you hope those are microchips, and not, um…macrochips. Much harder to remove.