This is a REAL pet peeve of mine. Several of Mrs wbill's friends are academics, that are quick to condemn big business (WalMart is a fav target), when their reality is that that they've never stuck a single toe out of academia and no more understand business than they do nuclear physics.
One of them has her law degree, and is in Student Services at a major college. My question, after a particularly vitrolic rant, was: "So, become a corporate lawyer and change things. Are you in Student Services because you enjoy being underpaid to clean up 19-year-old drunks that have thrown up all over themselves? Or, is it because you know that you'd be eaten alive in a business environment by people that are far more intelligent and motivated than you are?"
The silence was deafening. Needless to say, I'm not all that popular with the wife's friends. I'm not losing much sleep over it....
We the unwashed are too simple minded to understand the theories of the intellectual elite.
Just damn!! ;0)