Implying that academia is anything like the real world that 99% of people exist in is something only an academic would be foolish enough to imply.
We are all in the same world; this whole "you are not real enough" argument is ridiculous, and doesn't really mean anything.
People in academia do not. The fact that you missed this and thought comparing the number of people in a particular industry subset of a capitalistic enterprise to academia would somehow prove a point basically shows me how poor the thought/logic skills are in academia... The one thing they're supposed to be better at.