AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Apparently it's really hard to be a writer for Superman too.

His powers are closer to god-like than almost any other character. He can fly, he has super hearing, he's almost indestructible, his eyes can both shoot beams and see through things like they were X-rays, he can run or fly at incredible speed, he can blow on things to either freeze them or generate hurricane force winds. His only real weaknesses are a rock that's incredibly rare and the lack of the yellow sun, and a mere sun shade isn't enough to stop that.

In addition to this massive set of powers, you have his attitude. He's not just "good", but almost completely pure hearted. He's always willing to respond to a cry for help. He always does the right thing. He almost never gets angry or frustrated. He never exploits his massive advantages for any personal gain.

The problem is that the writers now have to come up with why a good god allows bad things to happen. Why are there wars? He could dismantle any army in the world, but he chooses not to. Does he just allow wildfires to happen? Why? Whenever he's in Metropolis he's constantly saving everybody from everything that goes wrong. Not just supervillains but out of control cars, collapsing highway overpasses, crashing planes, etc. So, what happens when he takes some me-time and goes to his fortress of solitude? Does he just allow the various bad things that can happen in Metropolis to happen while he's away on vacation? And why does he protect Metropolis? Are the lives of people in Metropolis worth more than the people in any other big city in the world? Since he doesn't need to sleep, is he out patrolling for 8 hours every night, making sure nothing happens, if not, why not?