[Scene: Office, late evening. Coffee cups. Everyone still working.]

Sociologist: Curious, isn't it? Longer hours... before a long weekend.

Economist: Temporary spike... rational response. Time's limited.

Anthropologist: It's the performance that's fascinating.

[Silence. Typing. A sigh.]

Sociologist: Systemic contradiction, embodied...

[Lights flicker. A microwave beeps.]

Anthropologist (softly): We sanctify rest through strain. Value, staged by deprivation.