[codingdave]

I think it is because our minute-to-minute work doesn't impact the well-being of either ourselves or other people. Your other examples all have a direct impact on people's lives, potentially up to life/death consequences. Whereas whether or not I finish updating this react component... not so much.

Now, contrast that with the work I did at a hospital. I was fully expected to keep working if whatever I was fixing had a negative impact on patient care, even if it was something trivial. We had a standard criteria for when we went home which was that if patient care was not impacted, we could put it off for later, but nobody walked out that door if a patient could be harmed by our inaction.