Proportionately with regard to intelligence and level of interest (mine and theirs.) I don't know about antagonistic responses, but if it's what I'd consider to be misguided from media narratives or irrationally based on economic fact, maybe I'd try to engage and have a conversation from those angles that are supposed.

I think Lyn Alden said something about lack of general awareness to market-cycles, I think Adam Back said something similar about the possibility of overselling something. I've come to a similar conclusion that learning should be first.