There are about ~3000 billionaires. Or a billionaire every minute.
I mean if you have all of Superman's powers you could go one a second
With time to spare to have a wild time with Wonder Woman.
Some of y'all don't understand the type of shit this guy's on
not a single POW! ?
I can hear this in my head. Snoop is amazing
Try to fly through these god damn rings
Relocate anyone with a net worth of >$500 mil to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
You don't do anything about the wealth? Someone else will get hold of it in no time after your 48 hs are past
I look at it like this: if you've accumulated that much money AND have had time to use it to help others, and haven't? Glub glub time.
If you've suddenly stumbled into ludicrous wealth because a psychotic demigod drowned one of your forebears? Well, it'll take at least 48 hours for you to put that money to more philanthropic use. I figure we can give those folks at least that much of a grace period to decide to be better.
The next Superman can handle them if that's not enough to change their attitude.
And realistically, this would create so many power vacuums all at once that civilization would probably collapse overnight, but you can only get so realistic with superpower hypotheticals.
Possibly a world tour of grabbing billionaires and far right politicians, Bibi, Putin, Trump, Le Pen, Musk, Murdoch and all the likes, showing them the messes and human suffering they helped creating and hurling them into space or something.
That's a pretty good starting list. I don't know that I'd waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.
I, too, was thinking "murder." It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you'd just have a new batch.
The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won't be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.
After the first 12 hours, as chaos is setting in, release a video demanding that all heads of state sign an agreement to limit the wealth of legal entities worldwide, something similar to the existing agreement on minimum 15% tax for corporations. However, this is a wealth-based tax, not income based.
Set minimum limits, e.g.
- No single individual may own or control more than 0.01% of the world's wealth (0.01% would currently equal around USD 40-50 billion).
- No family may collectively own or control more than 0.05% of the world's wealth (think the Saudi Royal family).
- Similarly no company's market capitalisation may exceed 0.05% of the world's wealth.
If their annual tax submission determines that they exceed those limits, they have 6-12 months to reduce their wealth. Companies can achieve this through splitting the company into smaller legal entities. Individuals may make charitable donations (anywhere in the world) but only to organisations that they can prove they and their family have no financial ties to. Also, the value of any non-profit organisations that they manage will count to wealth controlled by them/their families, to limit options for simply shuffling wealth around.
If they don't comply, the remainder is 100% taxable, with the tax collected globally based on the location of their wealth. I.e. if they have money sitting in 3 countries, each country can sieze their proportional share of the wealth in that country.
Any head of state that doesn't comply within 12 hours is added to the hit list. After the first few heads of state drop, the rest will comply quickly.
You could show Musky what it's really like to live on Mars
I would create my own Groundhog Day set up. Start learning task A. After 47 hours, fly around the earth to rewind time. Learn for another 47 hours. Repeat process. Learn infinity tasks and become a master at everything. On the last loop win the heart of Andie MacDowell.
I can't conceive of a better answer than this.
The fuck you would. Not much is stopping you from doing that now, just in a longer timeframe.
You'd be sat here with me and everyone else scrolling your phone for hours, before thinking "Oh yeah I was gonna do that thing...can't be arsed now".
Damn, you win.
Does Superman not age?
Also, sounds kinda lonely
Lots of regimes will fall.
The Democrat/Republican one would be first on my list
DC...Trump to the moon to fix - Trump.
Stratosphere - blow all the CO2 out into space and fix global warming.
Schwarma after with friends.
Oh yeah, grab the great plastic pollution bomb in the pacific and hurl it into the sun then use fry-eyes to burn every plastic manufacturer on the planet.
That's actually a great subject for an XKCD What If - What if all of the CO2 was suddenly removed from the atmosphere, all at once?
Probably not good either. We kind of need the O2 in it and the C probably too. Just in other forms.
The planet would enter a permanent snowball earth phase.
Every politician - Hmm, it turns out our path hasn't been dangerous at all! Let's do the same things but in overdrive!!
Not sure if that's fast enough, but I would try to visit all the planets in our solar system. And then head out to see what's in the Oort cloud.
Step 1 - Immediately relocate all Israelis to their country of origin (within prisons) and bring Palestinians back to their land.
Step 2 - Remove the infrastructure maintaining the puppet occupation of Korea.
Step 3 - Remove all weapons from the US/EU and deliver them to communist governments and natives.
Step 4 - Do the same with industrial/technological capacity.
Step 5 - Translate/Copy theory and deliver it to everyone on earth.
Step 6 - Build a bunch of Renewable Energy plants all over the world.
Step 7 - Destroy the Oil industry.
Step 8 - Nap in the sun but lose track of time and lose my powers so I disintegrate.
Oh! This one jar that is freakin stuck super bad.
Couple of these here 50 states gotta go. I'm annexing them on behalf of Rhode Island. Try to fuckin stop me. Wait does anybody know my powers only work for 48 hours? Cuz otherwise I think I can bluff
Naw, giant lava trenches sound like a good idea.
Does having superpowers fix my executive dysfunction? Cause if so then like, I dunno, clean my house, catch up on admin, do everything I've been unable to do
Destroy every factory making glue traps, every fur farm, Palantir, NGO group and the like and maybe tunneling through K Street in DC at high speed
Stop wars non violently by disarming all parties involved. I know, they'll arm up again after the 48 hours but all I need to do to protect myself is get a haircut and fake glasses.
Lasering arms off is pretty violent
Lol
I'd repair the bikes of people with broken bikes who need their bike fixed so they can get on their repaired bikes and cycle off on their bike.
Bike
If there was such a demihuman bike god, I would ride my bicycle more often. I just don't want to have to maintain it and waste time of my life again because some dumbass broke a beer bottle on the street.
Fly everywhere. I'm having breakfast in Paris, lunch in Cairo, and dinner in Kyoto, and checking out a bunch of other places in between. Also doing approximately all of the cocaine so I can stay awake for the whole thing.
Can you do the trick from the movie and turn back time?
You can, but you turn back time to before you were Superman, but still moving that speed, so you just atomize.
That still has a lot of possibilities :). Just rinse and repeat til you get everything right. A groundhog Day with superman powers hmmm.
Bring my family to safety, destroy every US or proxy owned oilfield, report to marshal kim jong un for further instructions
Probably I don't notice the whole time and go along with my standard routine.
Enact land reform and nationalisation of resources in countries that want it.
Help with infra development.If super intellect is available, then fusion, vaccines and similar stuff. Also setting up some cheap manufacturing of medicines.
Destroy all nukes, Luigi the system of money and power annnnnnnnnnd speed build a train system in the US.
Making the mother of all power vacuums Jack, can't fret over each billionaire!
Lemmy has some good ideas.
First I would get myself paid. Then I would drop a big rock on DC and credit reporting companies. Probably take out a bunch of healthcare insurance companies. Spend a few hours looking up companies responsible for the most pollution/human rights violations and remove them. Drop a big rock on the Kremlin and CCCP headquarters, probably North Korea too. Lots of big rocks dropped from really high.
None on le WhiteHome and NATO folk?
Hollywood adaptation with realistic plotline tho
Get a little area where I would actually want to live.
Carve out mountains to channel water to more areas, basically accelerate what Egypt is doing to spread the green lush from the Nile River.
Make ideal spots for some cities, get a lot of gold out of the ground to prepare to buy the land
Pour all the foundations of the buildings, build lines of rails for public transit and trains. Make sewer system and areas to transport water
Just make it super easier for people to come and build/live there, and if I own it all I can avoid big corporations coming and pushing out growing businesses
Won’t be specific, but certain parts of Washington DC and Florida would be a crater.
You know that one scene in season 1 of invincible where Omni man is on that alien planet? Basically that.
Probably watch a bunch of tv shows and fall asleep, if it lands on a weekend.
I'm already going to a kid amusement park tomorrow, so I guess I would just be the coolest dad there.
Fly into space and reverse the Earth’s rotation. This way we travel back in time. I will the use my knowledge of the future to become like Lex Luthor.
Use your Lex Luthor wealth to eliminate inequality, right? insert padme face
you destroy earth.. spend the next 47 hours desperately trying to figure out how to actually time travel with your powers
Figure out if I’d be more haunted by my actions as a temporary world superpower, and watching the status quo return very quickly afterward, or more haunted by all the things I could have done and didn’t. Sit pondering that for 48 hours.
Have to be honest here throwing right wingers into the sun I'll sleep well
Wipe the DC legislature off the map. Excepting aoc of course
Bang Lois Lane and order some pizza afterwards, obviously.
Probably do some miracles on national tv and populated areas, then create a new book club. Create sanctuaries for book study groups. Assign leaders across the world from those who protect the people.
This time the book is written using formal logic so it’s impossible to misunderstand and pick and choose what you want to follow. It only provides a logic framework of being kind and empathetic to others, respecting their rights(and what rights are), and consent, etc. This time the book will be timeless with no contradictions.
Then kindly “convince” a couple of billionaires and world leaders to donate 99.9% of their wealth to the new cause. 48 hours are too short to change the world for good. But you can kickstart a brilliant process towards a great future.
I have some rewrites I'd like to make to the US constitution.
Oh, bless your heart. Thinking that the Constitution has any sway whatsoever in 2025.
That's where I'll need to flex my con artist muscles.
I'd sleep the two days, nobody would mess with me.
Hurl mar-a-lardo, NYC, and Delaware into the sun. After that probably break the hotdog eating world record.
Please don't throw one of the only cities in the country with a semi-functional public transit system into the sun :(
I would grab Ceres and ram it into the Earth.
I'll finish my house, clear out the old tree debris, and complete all the physical work I've planned for years to come.
