Superpowers are useless
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Very few people have as large of a gap between how smart they are and how smart they think they are. Alan Moore thinks he's really, really, really smart and insightful.
Not even sure why I'm giving this argument the time of day, but to break it down a bit...he's weirdly assuming everyone has super powers in his scenario it seems. If you're the only speedster in the region, you can find a job a whole lot more interesting than pizza deliver. Supply and demand. Personal currier for the richest of the rich comes to mind, if we're just going standard delivery jobs. You'd be able to set your price, too.
And, even if everyone had super powers...well at that point they would be useful too, because the way cities were built and such would adapt to the new super powers. In his speed example, having a car would be impractical. If everyone had superspeed, things would adapt to where, even if it's now comparatively 'normal,' it's still useful.
Hilariously, you could make Moore's same stupid argument for anything. Cars? How are cars useful? What are you going to do...commute to the office?! Deliver goods?! How is that useful? No. Boring can still be useful.
TL;DR: Alan Moore is retarded.
Well, I'd argue there is one point to this: will, discipline, and integrity are some of the real super-powers that actually make anything else worth having. A useless shmuck with super-speed would probably go around doing party tricks and running fast for delivery. But then again, if he's lazy, he may just drive a car because it's easier.
A hero is not what powers he has, but who he is as a person.
Unfortunately, since Alan Moore is a degenerate communist, he doesn't believe that people can be heroic at a deep and fundamental level because of how shit of a person he is, which informs how shitty he thinks everyone else is.
An easy way to test this is to point out a hero that seems like a joke, Aquaman being a classic, and then see who treats it as a joke versus who finds it terrifying. Because they are both revealing their own creativity in how they'd use it with their reaction.
Whenever Batman gets someone else's powers, he becomes 1000% scarier.
Meanwhile, Batman also notes that Plastic Man may be the most dangerous mutant on Earth, he just doesn't realize it because he's a goof-ball. Also, Booster Gold has literal future tech, but isn't actually that great, and is kind of a bumbling egomaniac.
Frank Miller, of all people, was one of the only people who truly GOT how deadly Plastic Man could really be.
The one good line in All-Star Batman and Robin:
"If he wanted to, he could kill us all."
Not to mention that one Elseworlds story where Batman got a Green Lantern ring...