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When Rest Must Perform: Why Progress Promised Leisure and Delivered Exhaustion

An editorial on China's "pet brick" trend among stressed young adults has revived the debate on work, leisure and burnout nearly a century after Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek. The theme connects directly to India's own debate on long working hours and rising distress among young people. The Indian Express published an editorial contrasting Keynes's 1930 prediction of a 15-hour workweek with the modern culture of…