Bullshit

Economic analysts and material culture analysts often disagree. They're often in opposing fields. Everything is economic. Everything is material culture. Now I wonder where your copying your notion of an "economic lense" as materialistic". This is perhaps ideal for GOP misinformation, to have their eager, knuckle-dragging followers try to avoid the normal lifestyles that they deserve, telling them that such normal lives are somehow materialistic. Mao and Lenin used the same rhetoric, converting their countries into shithole oligarchies.