Its certainly possible. There have many governments that claimed to own a citizens time, with just that effect. If people chose to work less, they were sentence

Its certainly possible. There have many governments that claimed to own a citizens time, with just that effect. If people chose to work less, they were sentenced to gulags or death. I was recently reading about the poet Joseph Brodsky's trial for sicial parisitism in the Krushchev era. They committed the crime of unauthorized use of personal time to right poetry.