People who know whats good and wont settle for mediocrity are out there. Market to them!

Just wait it out ..... being confidently wrong only works for a limited time until people realize it isn't working at all .... and the point at which people, especially corporate leaders, realize it isn't working is the point when they start seeing that they aren't making money any more.

Irrigation, mechanization, computers, internet, web search and now LLMs destroyed jobs but also created new ones, often more qualified and better paid if you learned to use the new tech. Why would this suddenly change today? Just learn to use it like you learned to use web search and adapt to the jobs evolutions that are coming from it.

Yeah, but when I do it it's funny because it's a reference

Ah! Modern journalism?

start questioning them to get them to apply that knowledge

That's literally what people do to get a PhD, they defend their thesis by answering a bunch of questions from professors about it. That's the point of a PhD.

It has nothing to do with "street smarts" unless the degree is from the "School of Hard Knocks".