There's surely two orders of magnitude more people working in academia than in rocket science. Does your argument prove, then, that SpaceX is not the real world, either?

We are all in the same world; this whole "you are not real enough" argument is ridiculous, and doesn't really mean anything.

The "real world" refers to everything outside of academia, where things are done differently compared to inside academia.

People working at a rocket company work under the same basic value structure that a person working at a concrete company does.

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.