[wat10000]

I believe that’s how it is in some places. In others, there’s no obligation after receiving a subsidized education, and this would be a way to fix that. I doubt many people would propose or defend a system where graduates are required to work for the state or go to prison.

[s1artibartfast]

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.