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The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer

If for no other reason than lines like the following, you really need to read this article in the NYT Magazine about Chinese "gold farmers":

It is hard, in any case, for Zhou to say where the line between work and play falls in a gold farmer’s daily routines. “I am here the full 12 hours every day,” he told me, offhandedly killing a passing deer with a single crushing blow. “It’s not all work. But there’s not a big difference between play and work.”