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So if a worker wanted a day off, all they had to do was think bad thoughts?

Yup, they can spend some time in the cornfield[0] if they want!

[0] The cornfield was a type of purgatory/hell in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilig...

Except in China it might be a literal cornfield. Or some other place where you get "reassigned" to slave for the state.