The other day, I had the joy of discovering Scott Adams’s Dilbert Blog via the meeblog. If you’re looking for some daily source of inspiration and procrastination, I highly suggest you RSS it (or bookmark it, but that’s soo Web 1.0).

While most of his posts are random banter inspired from small daily events, he did post an interesting idea that is well beyond the norm of conventional thought, like the ones on this blog. Apparently it costs $25,000 to house an inmate for a year in prison. That’s well above the rent of my apartment for three people for the year, and I live in one of the most expensive parts of the US. Scott Adam’s idea is to start a home based business that allows the average Joe to house inmates and cash in on the $25,000 spent by the government. He calls it the Best Roommate Ever.

Yes, it’s a crazy idea. No, it will never happen. But the idea of having the inefficient government outsource to efficient civilian companies is an idea that’s been around for a while and it is a good idea… or is it?

Labels: crazy, service