They'd rather be whatever they want to be, including poor (or merely poorer-than-with-tourism), if they can avoid tourists.

Being offered more money isn't a "bend-over-and-take-it" proposition unless one allows it to be. People can choose any number of things over it.

There are tourists there. Waiting some tourists doesn't have to mean wanting any and all.

On the island where I was born (not Åland), they recently placed some large boulders to block access to a beach where penny-pinchers liked to park their camper vans for free. Good riddance.

Poor isn't quite the right term for Åland.

Åland is where the rich Finnish-Swede elites live. It's a small club and you are not invited.