# 2 superpowers, how to profit?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 12, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470 "2015-10-12T19:46:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/1 "2015-10-12T19:46:39Z")
So you suddenly get 2 superpowers.
1. You can change your appearence. You can select the rough age, ethnic origin and gender you wish to appear as but no more. All other charactaristics will be random. What you are wearing will automatically change apparant size to fit your new appearence. You can change back to youirself reliably, but you cannot recreate any other prevous appearance. Your ID documents don’t change.
2. You can teleport anywhere in the world.
Both superpowers have a 1 hour cooldown before you can use it or the other one again. Neither power can be used whilst under observation by a human or any device capable of creating human viewable images. (Babies and others incapable of understanding what they saw don’t count as human for these purposes)
How do you most easily profit?
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### Author:  [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/2 "2015-10-12T19:49:51Z")
Well, bank robbing comes to mind if you have no moral sense.
Otherwise, get hired by a secret government agency and be a spy, and live a life of low paid but secure salary. The dental plan isn’t much though.
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### Author:  [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/3 "2015-10-12T20:08:43Z")
Can you carry objects with you when you teleport? Can I stuff my pockets with cash inside a bank vault, wait an hour and then zip out of there? If not, maybe you could steal corporate secrets. You could either sell them to rival companies, or use your insider information to gain a competitive advantage yourself.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/4 "2015-10-12T20:14:12Z")
I’m ‘Jumping’ like an 'emfer.
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### Author:  [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/5 "2015-10-12T20:38:40Z")
That teleportation ability could make you a decent living as a courier for small, high value objects - works of art, confidential or important documents, a shoebox full of MicroSD cards, that sort of thing.
“Anything I can carry, delivered from anywhere on Earth to anywhere on Earth, in two hours or less. Only $100,000 per delivery.”
I figure there are plenty of governments, corporations, and just plain rich people who would pay for this service.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/6 "2015-10-13T00:19:38Z")
One hell of an assassin.
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### Author:  [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/7 "2015-10-13T00:25:41Z")
Grifter or assassin sounds about right.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/8 "2015-10-13T00:26:19Z")
I’m breaking no laws as the world’s greatest stage magician.
(Figure I get a million in seed money from the JREF first?)
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### Author:  [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/9 "2015-10-13T02:19:30Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> I’m breaking no laws as the world’s greatest stage magician.
You’d probably have to learn some actual stage magic as well, just to pad out the act a bit. You could do a few mediocre card tricks, pull a rabbit out of a hat and just as the audience is nodding off… Wham! Hit 'em with something obviously impossible. Yeah, that could work.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-superpowers-how-to-profit/734470/10 "2015-10-13T11:49:47Z")
> [@TheSeaOtter](#):
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> That teleportation ability could make you a decent living as a courier for small, high value objects - works of art, confidential or important documents, a shoebox full of MicroSD cards, that sort of thing.
I was thinking more along the lines of cocaine or heroin…