FreeTheSlaves said:
If I had superman powers I'd act outside the law until the system wasn't morally bankrupt. I'd levee a dollar for dollar tax on "defence" forces & an additional dollar for dollar tax on all countries participating in global nuclear terrorism. This would go into a UN fund to speed economic development in 3rd world countries, & generally redistribute wealth. Failure to comply would mean I wipe out the 100 wealthiest members of the offending nation. Rinse & repest.
Go read
Rising Stars to see how well this works
Just like you can't legislate morality, you can't force it on people from the outside. Also, remeber the parable about giving a man a fish vs teaching him to fish. Also, violence begets more violence. You might do this to a couple nations before the wealthiest people in some others find out about Kryptonite. Then it's all over for you. You might also want to look at
Superman: Secret Identity for how a lone superhuman with Superman's powers might work in our world.
Now, if you had Superman's powers, you could go a long way towards this goal without even acting outside of the law; cool as the latter may sound it rarely ever turns out well in the real world. (We're assuming for arguements sake that you are the only superhuman on the planet and it remains that way - otherwise things get really messy.
Kingdom Come -level messy).
You can be a pack mule that can move at super speed. Silly as that might sound, actually getting supplies and aid to people in need is a major obstacle.
You have the power to prevent some of the major natural disasters. We're assuming here you can do this without making things worse elsewhere. You can demolish old structures in the blink of an eye, leaving room for new buildings, revitalizing old neighborhoods. You can do it effortlessly and for free.
You can end droughts and famines. You can reverse desertification. You can dig mines to wealth, drill down to oil reserves that are deeper than conventional tech is capable of reaching
You can dig ditches and irrigation channels and build roads and airstrips and railways and bridges and tunnels, all of which take years and tens of millions of dollars to do, along with a sophisticated work force - you can do it for free in a few days work. Infrastructure is the key to helping people in many impoverished areas. You can build permanent shelters from stone and metal that will last centuries instead of falling down in the next monsoon.
You can create new arable land! You can change the course of mighty rivers. You can take millions of acres of rocky useless land and make it capable of supporting a rich agro industry - turn Chile or Isreal or the Sudan into the equivilant of the Napa Valley and you go a long way to defusing resource inequity. (How you solve the problem of food becoming so cheap that no one wants to be a farmer because they can't make any money at it is an exercise for the reader).
