Long says: “I don’t think my skepticism about the productivity theory of wages is any sort of criticism of the market. The tendency to which Austrians point is real, and it means that markets are likely to get us closer to wages-according-to-productivity than could any rival system.” So he’s actually precisely agreeing with me. The free market is not perfect, but it’s the closest to a meritocracy. Nobody claimed that the free market would be perfect. So I don’t understand what you are suggesting. You’re pointing out that the world is imperfect, but there’s nothing we can do about it. No kind of social activism can convince people to not think that women are less productive. Only seeing women perform as good as men can convince them of that.