This is another in a long series of misdirections about income inequality by Tyler Cowen.
More details:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/desperate-effort-by-t...
>Of all the causes behind growing income inequality, in the longer run this development may prove one of the most significant and also one of the hardest to counter.
Well, that's pretty much why you chose to invent this little story, isn't it Tyler?
In unrelated news, robots are totally going to steal your job, which may prove one of the most significant and also one of the hardest causes of income inequality to counter:
https://www.aei.org/publication/will-robots-terminate-the-us...