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I think the closest you’ll get is Costco, but obviously their distribution model isn’t super comparable. (They do have some similarities though, especially in how they make a lot of their profit from a yearly subscription)

That’s not the the real question. The real question is “what is the maximum amount of productivity that our culture will accept beyond which it considers the burden inhumane?”

For example, in antiquity, slavery was acceptable.

Even more recently, Taylorism. I mean, yeah, it's good for robots but not for people.

When people design systems they should consider the humanity of such systems despite the issue of people knowingly and maliciously short-circuiting things.

What do you want to achieve? Inhumane world for the sake of tiny productivity gain?

Even if the answer is a clear "no" that doesn't make this case acceptable.