The culture industry administers free time by the same rules as production

Evidence

The culture industry, which involves the production of works for reproduction and mass consumption, thereby organizing ‘free’ time, the remnant domain of freedom under capital in accordance with the same principles of exchange and equivalence that reign in the sphere of production outside leisure, presents culture as the realization of the right of all to the gratification of desire while in reality continuing the negative integration of society. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 14

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the administered-free-time thesis in its most compact form — precisely the concept the reader wants to operationalize.