Winter's Fire (Campaign Setting)

Every comic seems to assume that every person who gains superpowers would either become a criminal or a crime fighter.

Isn't more likely that people would try to get rich, get famous, even scores, dick around, and generally keep being the jerks and idiots that they always are?

And what would happen if you had the number of super powered beings in this world that exist in mainstream comic universes?

boom...

And after that? What would the world look like if people could manipulate the ground beneath our feet? Play with magnetic or nuclear forces? Shape Metal or stone like clay? Command plant life like a conductor conducts a symphony? What kind of world would exist if a tiny minority had abilities that allowed the to kill with impunity? What kind of world would exist if most of these powers, as depicted in the comic world, were concentrated in normal people, rather than in the hands of the normal power brokers? What would you do... if you could fly? Tear bank vaults open? Set fires with a though? Heal with a touch? Teleport? Regenerate? Sense Danger? Read Minds? Control Minds?

What would you do... if this were you?