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To turn it around, if I'm going to grind for you, I had sure as hell better be properly compensated for the grind. If I hustle to get you what you need, you bet you're ass I'm going to expect a commensurate return. If there isn't a mutual benefit to my hustling, why would I put it in? What makes you so entitled to my time and effort that you can't make an equitable exchange for it?

Absolutely! Forget about you and me, the best grind is for one's loved ones.

Tangential: there's a theory that hunting and gathering is more productive per work time than ancient farming.

Farming won out because it favors centralization of power: it is more productive per area, so the chieftain can better keep an eye on a larger group, and it increases switching costs, so farmers will put up with more abuse.

The weird part is that the modern type of grinding gives you multiple orders of magnitude more rewards but to have access to the better way of grinding you need to increase your costs by multiple orders of magnitude.