Status Updates From 贏家的詛咒：不理性的行為，如何影響決策？

On the page 143, it mentioned a survey which led to the paper listed in the link here. The paper indicates that from the findings of the survey, people would rather have the increasing wage profiles instead of the decreasing one, while the decreasing one actually generated higher net present value. so why has adult life of job and works turned out to be this way? LOL