Explain My World's Economy to a Non-Writer

You've sketched how your world makes and moves wealth, but you can't tell if it actually holds up. Describe it and get it explained back as if to a sharp reader who knows nothing of your setting: what's produced, who trades, where the money goes. Hearing it plainly exposes the gaps. Good for worldbuilders checking economic logic and writers wanting to describe it naturally in prose.

I am writing a fantasy or science-fiction novel and I need help explaining how my world's economy works, both so I can check its logic and so I can describe it naturally in my prose.

Here is a rough description of how my world's economy functions: {ECONOMY_DESCRIPTION}.

Please explain this economy back to me as if I were an intelligent non-economist reader who knows nothing about my world. Cover:
- What the primary source of value is (labour, land, magic, data, etc.) and who controls it
- How ordinary people earn a living and what poverty looks like
- What the currency or exchange system is and why people trust it
- What the biggest economic tension or inequality is
- One economic detail that would feel surprising or distinctive in a scene of daily life

Flag any internal contradictions you spot as you go. Keep the tone accessible.