[kehrlann]

Such an educated man might go a step further than just answering the question, and rephrasing it... Maybe it's not just about earning more money, but disproportionately higher standard of living. And speaking about those inequalities shifts the debate - since they earn so much money, they could contribute more to society, say through taxes ?

[acobster]

Could not agree more. I can't shake the feeling that he's being hand-wavey on purpose, essentially saying that nothing needs to change because, you see, supply and demand...

[wfo]

This is the general libertarian economist's retort to any suggestion that things might be better if they were different in my experience and it is uninteresting as it is evasive and unsatisfactory.