Very cool! I'll take these paragraphs out of order a bit.
Yep. And with the powers of Superman, all of that is possible. Eventually, as the business builds, the idea is to keep as many low-to-mid level jobs (at good living wages+) going as possible (no upkeep/etc expenses after all, since I can handle that myself). Since it's proprietary tech that's always at least ten years beyond what any other humans could do, that insulates from a lot. And if it's just the people "at the top" losing out, that influence will have an impact, but will have a buffer (everybody else). Any time one of them goes belly up, put an ad out telling the workers to come here and we'll take care of them.
I think Amazon is a good example - even with the crappy things they do, they're still massively popular and really only get pushback in a few places. Now, imagine Amazon without the public detriment and horrible working conditions for shippers. And in several industries at once, all working as a public good (operating at very little net profit margin as most is going to the workers). Add to that the public face of saving people from burning buildings, stopping criminals and natural disasters, etc, and you've got something that's hard (though not impossible) to fight from a PR standpoint.
On the past point, I don't think business/innovation is the only solid road to positive change - but it certainly is the path of least resistance!
Also very true. And that's why I think journalism/media reform has to be another prong of it. If media (particularly U.S. journalistic media) has a powerful entity that's fully divorced from funding needs, it'll rise up pretty quickly - and one that keeps everyone (even me) accountable will do a lot to help balance things. There's no such thing as perfect, of course, but it would at least help.Morals and ethics are subjective. As this thread shows. Everyone here is suggesting what they believe would be the right thing to do and even within this small sample population, not everybody agrees on what "right" is. No matter what anyone did, someone would complain about it. You're not doing enough, you're doing too much, you're not doing the things you should, doing the right things wrong, you're being too involved with social development, not involved enough, blah blah blah. Governments will target you. If you bend the knee to one, the others will go after you. Bend the knee to none, and they'll all go after you. If you possess power but belong to no one, they'll call it "accountability" and try to stop you, even if what you do supports and bolsters them. And if your actions don't support them they'll label you a terrorist. They won't dare allow such a powerful wild card on the table no matter what you do. So bottom line, if you've got Clark's powers, unless you're so low key you don't do anything at all, you'll have at least half the world against you no matter what. They'll spend more time arguing and politicizing your actions than they'll spend actually considering your actions.
I wish. lol - though my brain is always thinking of things, so you never know.So if any of us get powers I hope it's you and I hope you're really good at inventing and selling stuff.
If you need some marketing help, let me know.
With my luck, I'd just get the Post-Crisis Superman's powers (which I say even *as* a P-COIE fan), and all of this would be moot. LOL