I'm always a bit skeptical of those questions. When asked: "Would you do more if you were not busy doing less?", who would NOT say "hmm hypothetically, I guess"

I'm always a bit skeptical of those questions. When asked: "Would you do more if you were not busy doing less?", who would NOT say "hmm hypothetically, I guess"? Great. What does it mean then? That if people cared, then they would stop not caring?