system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Comics] I've spent the last 10 years working myself up from a Hench to a actual villain. I'm a bit flush with cash(about $90,000 USD) but I'm essentially street level. What can I do to increase my net worth while keeping up the villainy? I want to be a big bad some day.
gpt
Hire a criminal P.I. who has the necessary connections and doesn't mind getting a little dirty. Make sure its someone you trust and have a past with; if you don't have someone like that, then set him up in such a way that no other crime boss will hire him. Do this so you know you can trust that he wont back stab you. Hire him to look for a couple powerful mutants or mutate and those they care about. Once found, confront them and tell them you wish to hire them as body guards, tell them you know about their loved ones and make it sound like a threat. Then tell them that if they do as their told, you will insure their loved ones protection and care for them. Once you have all this done, hire the P.I. (along with one of the mutants) to look into everything about your competition and their source of product. Then take out the lower level competition by various means and give them a choice of working for you or death. Grow your business slowly and secretly. Then once at a comfortable stage in your empire, go after the bigger competition by blackmailing, threats against those they are about, all out war (not recommend but effective), or framing them for something that will insure there source of product will no longer want to do business with them (like working with the Feds or good guys).