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.
Say what you will about My Hero Academia, but I have always loved All Might for this reason.
He is a prime example of upholding the ideals of Superman.
It helps that All Might is more proudly American - despite being Japanese both in- and out-of-universe - than characters written in modern American stories.
From what I have seen, it is because All Might is how most Japanese people see Americans: Big, loud, obnoxious, and in your face. But when the chips are down and you need a hero, they will bulldoze over everyone in their path to be the hero and save the day. And quite frankly, they are sadder when they arent like that.