Invention - The Wheel

One of my first great controversial inventions was the device I effectively called "the wheel". The idea behind this is brilliant, allow me to break it down Barney style:

There is a mass amount of people that do not contribute to society as a whole. The usually leech off of others, and basically are the reason Communism will never work. For the purposes of explaining "the wheel", I'll call them "leeches".

Under ideal circumstances, a court system would be developed not to try criminals, but to try all civilians as to their worth to society. Be it on a yearly or larger basis, every American would stand before a panel of judges and explain how they are benefiting either society or the world. A point value would be assigned to such things as education certificates, social work, charities, physical appearance, etc.etc.etc. If they are found useful by obtaining a point value, then they are free to go. If they are not however, they are told to "get on the wheel".

"The wheel"(1) would be a large, Ben Hur like corn grinding wheel miles beneath every major metropolis in the United States. Leeches sent here would push "the wheel" around, thusly turning a large turbine in a power plant (2) above them in 10-12 hour shifts. After they were done for the day, they would retire to a lower chamber (3) to sleep on bunk beds and dine on pancakes and milk. Why pancakes and milk? Have you ever eaten pancakes and milk and not been completely stuffed?

They would be contained by a giant metal hatch (4) that would only be opened after they had served their time and when shipments of Bisquick arrive. Their sentance would be based on the negative amount of points they received through either lack of education, how sloth their lifestyle was, what crimes they had committed, how fat they were, etc.etc.etc.

Not only would these people be inspired to work towards helping society, while they are paying their pennance they are helping society. Some scientists I'm sure would contend that with limitless power we could do just about anything. Well, in this case, it starts with limitless apathy.