I've always referred to lawyers, bankers and MBA's as "economic grease." They keep the cogs spinning and work to enable people to do work of real economic value. Scalia is wrong. Our best minds aren't lawyers. And there is not and will never be any danger of that happening. He has been in an ivory tower shielded from reality far too long if that's what he thinks.
Longtex I mean, our views on what is valuable to us come from, to a great extent, our environment. For college entering teens, this is manifestly so. Mostly, they go for what's cool.
The lawyers with whom Scalia comes into contact are arguing before the Supreme Court. Those lawyers should certainly be among the best and brightest, as should the Justices themselves. Perhaps others should pursue other fields, but not the attorneys that Scalia is addressing.
