If you were Lex Luthor

[llozymandias]

I'm talking pre-coie. Where Lex was pretty much the smartest in the universe. I am asking what you would do if you had that level of super-intelligence/super-genius. If the only real limiting factors regarding what you can do are your imagination, determination, & conscience. Other than having seemingly unlimited genius, you are still the same person you are now. Imagine that either something happened that gave you that intellect. Or you find out that you actually had that intellect all along. It's just that something (or someone) caused that intellect to be suppressed, until now. What do you do now?

[Vordan]

Make a crapload of money. After that try to reverse climate change or start building a space ship because it’s going to get nasty.

[DochaDocha]

A lot of people like to joke that social media corporations have pulled off a great Post-Crisis Luthorian scheme on the whole world. Lex Luthor isn't the greatest villain Jesse Eisenberg portrayed on screen...

But if it's Pre-Crisis Luthor? I guess I would use Luthor's genius to try to fix climate change and solve the growing energy crisis. Maybe I'd also use Luthor's smarts to bust a lot of crooks who annoy me, like online scam artists of all types (Nigerian princes, ransomware, etc.). A lot of stories have commented that an elected Luthor could eliminate things like poverty and crime, but I think that might be the biggest fiction about Luthor ever written.

[AnakinFlair]

Run for President.

[phonogram12]

After attaining a crap load of money and influence, I'd make life as equitable for everybody as humanly possible.

[JennyL]

Find a cure for aging, cancer, and heart disease. With an extended life I could move on to other problems : )

If I was feeling nice, I would do everything in my power to reduce the price of the treatments for these health related problems.

If I was feeling evil, I would make it so no one but me knows how the treatments work, and would utilize the price insensitivity of medicine to accumulate a lot wealth/power....but that's pretty damn evil.