Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

He will be able to be completely cold-blooded about it: after all, the 
others are merely sub-human animals. So, he can devise a way of 
suckering them on a scale, and with collateral damage, which a 
normally-functioning, empathetic human might balk at.

For example, he can lend money to people who he knows are unable to 
repay, put that debt into a financial instrument and then -- this is the 
clever bit -- sell it at a mark-up to other financial players. OK, so 
when it unwinds then things will really hit the fan and might even bring 
civilisation cra****ng about their ears, but he will be long gone.

Speaking of which, my neighbour, who is something in the City, seems to 
have disappeared...

JF