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title: "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?"
description: "Only 13% of U.S. adults say it's \"very important\" for them to be wealthy, ranking this personal priority far behind six others measured in a Pew Social Trends survey."
date: "2008-06-20"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/06/20/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/"
---

# Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

Only 13% of U.S. adults say it’s “very important” for them to be wealthy, ranking this personal priority far behind six others measured in a Pew Social Trends survey; but don’t get Americans wrong — a majority certainly wouldn’t mind being rich. According to the survey, another 43% of adults say being wealthy is “somewhat important” to them, while about the same proportion say it’s “not too important” (33%) or “not important at all” (10%). So who says Americans worship at the feet of the almighty dollar? Not the American public in any case. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/816/who-wants-to-be-rich)