Half-swiped from somewhere else. Here are the conditions:
- For ten years you will be incarcerated in a modern, comfortable room which will act as a 'cell'. The size of your room is whatever size your main bedroom is at home.
Fine by me. I mostly live in my main bedroom anyway. I'm assuming that all the facilities you mention later (gym, library, washing facilities, etc) are somewhere else because they couldn't all fit in a room the size of an ordinary bedroom.
After ten years you will emerge to a guaranteed yearly salary of £100,000.
This is the key thing. My yearly income is £13,300. Obviously, this severely restricts my freedom. So for me this hypothetical deal is (in comparison with my real life) accepting a much more comfortable life with somewhat reduced freedom for 10 years in exchange for a much more comfortable life with significantly increased freedom for the rest of my life. The deal has some appeal. The restrictions don't seem hugely onerous to me. I am content being on my own.
- You have access to a hot and cold shower, but your ambient room temperature can only be selected as either 12.5C or 35C.
That would be an issue, although the workaround would be to continuously swap between the two. The change couldn't be instantaneous, so if you swapped between them at the right frequency you'd have a more reasonable temperature. Taking it as read, though, this would be the biggest problem. 12.5C is extremely cold for a permanent indoor temperature and 35C is extremely hot. Both have some degree of risk and both would at best involve permanent discomfort.
- Clothes and laundry are done weekly for you.
A nice luxury that is an improvement over my real life.
- You have a choice of fast food or gourmet food. If you choose fast food, all room cleaning and pest control is done for you. If you choose gourmet, all cleaning must be done by you, as well as pest eradication.
I currently do that for a house. Doing it for 1 room would be an improvement. So I get less housework and free gourmet food cooked by someone else, which is a very nice luxury that is another improvement over my real life.
Alcohol is provided one evening only.
I wouldn't want any alcohol while living alone in a room. It could become too important. So this restriction is no problem for me.
- You have day access to a music room with three instruments and a library of all records ever recorded within the decade of your choice.
That would be a difficult choice, but overall this is yet another significant luxury that's a significant improvement over my real life.
- You have day access to a library of literature with all books and periodicals published within the decade of your choice.
As above.
- You have day access to a gym with all the latest cardio and strength equipment. No spotters.
Yet another significant luxury that's a significant improvement over my real life.
- You have evening access to a home cinema system with all films ever made within the decade of your choice.
Same as for music and books.
- Your room contains one television, black and white and only receives 4 channels.
I don't currently have a television and don't want one, so this wouldn't be a restriction for me. I'd have a lot of books to read.
- Your room contains one Pentium 4 computer and a 56k internet connection.
Hmm...well, I could tolerate that. It's not been all that long since I was very pleased to have kit that advanced. I remember upgrading to a 14.4K modem and thinking it was fast.
Do we have an allowance in this luxury home arrest life? There are plenty of cheap old games that would run on that PC (assuming the rest of the PC was on a par with the CPU).
- You have access to the female of your choice, but for one hour and for only twenty times during your incarceration.
I'm not into rape, nor am I into child abuse or beastiality or dehumanising people (you stated 'female', not 'woman', which is an extremely important difference).
Also, many people are sexually attracted to men.
- After ten years you will have your guaranteed salary of £100,000, however, everyone you have ever known will have forgotten about you and you will never be able to contact them.
Hmm...that's an issue. However, if they have truly completely forgotten about me and will never remember or be reminded of me, then it won't be a problem for them. So it would only be me who'd be bothered by it, which makes it much less bad.
I'm not sure. It's an appealing offer that would be a significant improvement over my real life after the 10 years and in some ways an improvement during the 10 years and the restrictions wouldn't bother me very much...but the temperature and the permanent disconnection from everyone I know are problems.
Considering that my "I have won the rollover silly money lottery" dream is to live alone on my own private island with supplies delivered by drone or something, this is a quite appealing deal to me.