People want higher incomes

I was reading an interesting article by Roger Kerr. Now there were a lot of good points here which I plan to discuss at some point, however I’m not going to right now. One thing that did catch my eye was a poll he used as evidence that our incomes are too low. According to this poll 96% of New Zealander’s want higher incomes.

Now this poll is stupid, deep down 100% of people want higher incomes. All the poll is tell me is that 96% of people are honest about wanting more money, while 4% of people want to make themselves feel good by pretending to not value material things. It reminds me of when I was a student working at the Warehouse and hippies would come in complaining about capitalism and social inequality while happily buying goods that would have ‘exploited’ foreign labour.