This is the inherent prejudice of the intellectual.

People 'on the street' often do think about it, just in a more instinctive, applied manner.

People who 'have time to think about it' put things in entirely constructed contexts, that may make no sense in the real world.

This is evident in business as well, it's shocking how different the reality of business from all of the even more applied aspects of anything one might learn in bschool.