You have some good points, but many of those books on that list help people learn to truly think deeply, not just read and briefly consider anecdotes. It is that deep, rigorous, logical thought that is valuable to virtually everyone (and certainly everyone who claims to love to learn) that is more important than the contents of those books.

Also, some of them (game theory in particular) are broadly applicable to and by most people who put the time and effort in to properly learning them.