In addition to the other good reasons listed here: Inflation. Most of us are now paid less in real terms for our efforts than we were 1-2 years ago. If you co

In addition to the other good reasons listed here: Inflation. Most of us are now paid less in real terms for our efforts than we were 1-2 years ago. If you convert your labor to something invariant, like carrots, you just aren't given as many for a day of hard work. So, to the degree that we are rational beings and have agency on the matter, we scale our output accordingly.