I struggle with this a lot myself. I think time to pursue some thing that just makes you happy makes you better at what you do in your day job. The pressure to

I struggle with this a lot myself. I think time to pursue some thing that just makes you happy makes you better at what you do in your day job. The pressure to constantly preform and grow. The growing difficulty of maintaining a middle class family. All these factors push you to always be earning. Some days I just want to be standing in a river throwing bit's of feathers and fur and not thinking about stress-causing real life. First world issues, I know it really is but I personally find our modern Western capitalism driven lifestyles to really be missing a connection to anything important. I think one of the uses of hobbies that helped to smooth that over. We worry about making a new startup to "change the world" and ignore the river on fire because of pollution. I think that most hobbies in the post war era helped to tie people to something they valued, history, nature, or sport. Given our requirement to work so much I think people are driven to this new model to include that in there live.