HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]

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  • no i think that still counts as a hobby. the nature of hobbies is that most of them are uninteresting to people who do not share those hobbies. model trains is like the platonic “hobby” and it’s mostly solitary. i don’t know where you got the idea that the hobby is a natural, pre-social category that has been misrepresented under capitalism. if anything, it’s the capitalist separation of pleasure activities and work activities which gives us the concept in the first place.

    additionally, i’m not sure what conception of “material value” you’re using, or why that would be necessary to hobbies. like, you have to be able to sell it on the open market for it to be a hobby? is going for walks a hobby? certainly not in common usage. what about hiking? is smashing mailboxes in the dead of night a hobby? is doing whip its a hobby? what about my personal vice, trading card games? that’s very social and very material, and my first hand observation is that it is ideologically aligned with the reification of intellectual property and empowerment of corporations.