"No student loans. No economy to crash. Free food and healthcare. What's not to like, right?"

It's like prison, but better, because it pretends not to be a prison. Which isn't necessarily the way you wanna go, but it probably beats wasting your days away in an actual prison. Like Seth said; a vacation.

"So, what? The events are just around to shake things up and make sure we don't get bored?"