I'm a mechanical engineer, I have a well regarded degree from a well regarded school, and most day's my jobs to quietly sit at a desk and think or debate ideas, and I love the way my want-to-be elite friends, neighbors, and coworkers look at me when I say things like: "we way overvalue the expertise of knowing and way undervalue the expertise of doing", "unless a person's from a field that involves lots of relevant experiments, and deference to experimental results, I don't care what they think; I care what surgeons, farmers, and plumbers think; I generally don't care what social scientists, philosophers, or public health people think", "for most academics and experts, their expertise is in reading the room regarding their own field, but nothing more", "like with many religious figures, there's a chicken and egg problem among many experts; while they're the most knowledgeable ones on their topics, they typically only ended up that way because they started out naive but sufficiently passionate to spend years getting credentialed, so they're clearly biased and typically seem to have an agenda", or "for the most part, an expert is just a person for whom it's socially acceptable to lazily, mindlessly outsource your thinking to and blindly follow.". They look at me like I'm a bad person, or a trader, and I suppose that in a way I am, because I want to acknowledge reality, and do what works, not what sounds nice, or brings prestige 😆