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by munksbeer 361 days ago
You'd need regulation to prevent people from working more.

If I want to live in a particularly desirable house, I have to earn more money than the other people who want to live there too, so I can outbid them. So I'll work harder than them to do so.

(Trivial concocted example for illustration purposes, not meant to be nitpicked)