The preceding part of the quote is important: > Even if CEOs had the same salary as fast food workers, people would overwhelmingly prefer to be CEOs Yes, I th

The preceding part of the quote is important: > Even if CEOs had the same salary as fast food workers, people would overwhelmingly prefer to be CEOs Yes, I think most people would prefer to be CEOs if all things except salary were unchanged. Being a fast food worker is not something people enjoy to do 5 day in a week and it's a boring, low status, manual job.