Not sure being held against your will, out of touch with your friends and family, unable to visit much less talk to them, can be dismissed as a "good life", no

Not sure being held against your will, out of touch with your friends and family, unable to visit much less talk to them, can be dismissed as a "good life", no matter what you are provided with materially. Or to take a less extreme example than this (in some ways), Ed Snowden might make good money on the speaking circuit, but even then, would any of us envy being effectively exiled from our home, never allowed to return? Adapting to a new place or a new culture can be psychologically hard even when you want to do it. Exile or imprisonment is pretty cruel under any circumstances.