User blog comment:CNBA3/Power Users and Real Life./@comment-5060540-20130715232632/@comment-5265497-20130716041000

"How would you feel if someone could read your mind and uncover every dirty secret you are hiding in there? How would you feel if there was a moody teenager living next door to you who could set you on fire with a thought? Now take whatever anxiety you might feel and multiply that times 1 million."

Just think of all the uses it could serve as a larger cog on our economic machine. If they had trouble controlling their abilities, we would either euthanize or detain them so they can't become a threat to us or themselves. There are so many possibilities for a mind reader (investigation, interrogation, "code reading", phonograph, analyst, etc), a pyrokinetic (fuel efficiency, wildfire control, electricity). Our society has became more utilitarian than anything and would likely fight FOR these people on the very same basis. Take whatever productivity you might have and multiply that times 1 billion.