It's a chicken-or-the-egg thing:
In my view, Scalia is half-right. We are indeed devoting more of our “best minds” to law than we ideally should; perhaps more of our merely average minds too. But the high salaries of lawyers suggest that there is a genuine demand out there for all that lawyering. Quite simply, we need a lot of lawyers because we have a lot of laws.
But we have a lot of laws because we have a lot of lawyers invested in keeping the law complex and confusing.
