This is an epidemic among business types. They very often just don't have the imagination to know whats involved.
You could build a giant rocket, complete with moon lander and robots to build a habitat once it arrived and connect it to a giant red button that said "launch"... You'd still have to tell the MBA what button to push, and after he did, he really would believe that he had single handedly colonized the moon.
All of the engineers would think him a slimy weasel for making such a claim after all of their hard work. He would just think that they were jealous because while he was busy with the hard, visionary work of moon colonization, they just sat around and fiddled with rocket parts all day.
While I agree with your basic premise we're not all like that. I've heard the exact same thing from engineers - "hey I built this great product and it should sell itself, how hard can it be to market and sell it?
It's common to dismiss the work needed to accomplish a task in an area you are unfamiliar with. Especially if the people doing the task are good at what they do. Then they make it seem easy. This goes for both tech and biz people.
You could build a giant rocket, complete with moon lander and robots to build a habitat once it arrived and connect it to a giant red button that said "launch"... You'd still have to tell the MBA what button to push, and after he did, he really would believe that he had single handedly colonized the moon.
All of the engineers would think him a slimy weasel for making such a claim after all of their hard work. He would just think that they were jealous because while he was busy with the hard, visionary work of moon colonization, they just sat around and fiddled with rocket parts all day.