The damage they're doing to themselves will eventually trickle down to those they live with - spouse, kids, parents, friends, etc.

> Bonus, I don't think the parent comment was trying to represent his friend's actions as something to replicate.

Fair point. I didn't intend to counter OP, but a general sentiment in tech. Could have made it clearer.

> The person is doing the damage to themselves, not to others

Actually we don't know that. Tech is usually a collaborative field. And the line between auto-exploitation and allo-exploitation is often blurry. The very least through not taking care of oneself in a balanced fashion they've distributed that cost to the insurance payers, their family and even their team through their absence. The word individual means indivisible, not isolated.

You sure there isn't someone there doing A/B experiments for motivating the pickers and having to choose whether or not to try motivating them with the message "how would you feel if you have to tell your children they don't get to eat because you didn't pick enough items."