That might work out. If you're very productive, instead of going for more pay, go for more time off
I don't think you'll ever sell that as a general proposition ("Let's all hose ourselves for the common good!" OK, you first), but there is clearly a 'tipping point' where that occurs.
It is common for guys who get whacked with some of the more generous post-marital settlements to react in exactly that way, and it makes perfect economic sense. If you tell a guy that 50 or 60 per cent of his gross will be taken off the top, that means that the after-tax impact of a one-dollar reduction in salary is 25 or 30 cents, if that. So we see the nuclear physicist deciding to go drive a pizza truck instead. He doesn't really lose that much, but he has thrown a spear at the system that did this to him. Meanwhile the society loses the services of a highly-trained nuclear physicist. So you can see that it's important to do this to as many men as possible, as quickly as we can.