The compulsion to have hobbies works from within, not just externally

Evidence

Woe betide you if you have no hobby, no pastime; then you are a swot or an old-timer, an eccentric, and you will fall prey to ridicule in a society which foists upon you what your free time should be. Such compulsion is by no means merely external in character. It is linked to the inner needs of people in the functional system. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 260

Categorization

• SEED: Test case for the reader’s project: the modern ‘side hustle’ or ‘passion project’ culture as compulsory pseudo-hobbies — check where Adorno holds and where it fails.
• XREF: connects to: Mass amusement reproduces the mechanized work process in leisure — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 107; Contemporary subjects move compulsively among the boring while never feeling bored — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1765