Your proposal is not absurd. They used to do it in the Soviet Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka). Not exa

Your proposal is not absurd. They used to do it in the Soviet Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka). Not exactly aeron chairs and ping pong tables, but way better than the regular prison camp.