Patience

I'm not at all sure that an "average person" could achieve world domination. I'm not even sure that "world domination" is possible. (Even Bill Gates hasn't quite managed it.) However, the quickest route would probably be something like: Achieve leadership of a world power, preferably the strongest world power. Then use that country's military and doplomatic resources to take over the world. It might be even quicker if you could somehow manage to set off an all-out-nuclear war and survive it to pick up the pieces, but the world you had dominion over wouldn't be very enjoyable. Another way would be to set loose an easily transmitted plague with a very high mortality rate, say 85% or better. Just make sure you have a way to survive so you can take over afterwards. Good luck!

There are three basic steps to global dominion, as I see it. The first thing you need to do is to get the attention of the people you wish to control. The quickest way to control group of people is to make them afraid. Fear has a funny way of making otherwise reasonably intelligent people very stupid and quick to panic. Create a very scary threat (of course the threat can't be associated with you in any way) just as everyone is starting to feel the fear, rise up and say, "I'll save you! Follow me and you shall survive!" This is also a great way to create a diversion so people don't find out what your true intentions are. It's kind of like; "Look, over there", when the people look away, you're no longer in their focus. After they are afraid and busily trying to protect themselves from an imaginary foe, that's when you can really get down to business. You can do all sorts of sneaky underhanded transactions to increase your wealth and power without anyone noticing. Anything for which you must obtain mass approval, slip it in under the guise of being necessary to "protect the people". This is how you can take away their rights, making them much easier control because the law will be on your side. You must also control the media if you're to have any chance at this world domination racket. It's all about your commercial image for those who would never be able to know you in person. Most importantly, you have to tell the people what to think. This is easier to do in more developed nations where almost every person has access to television. It's easier to spread the good news of you and your wonderful works over the TV air-waves. Once you've got them afraid, giving up their rights and buying from the corporations that contribute to your growing wealth, you're 90% there, buddy! What's gonna be a bummer is that somewhere in the world there will be a few people who just won't buy into the BS. It's not likely any one person could succeed at ruling the entire world, there's always gonna be the pesky independent types to keep any one man from obtaining that much power. This strategy would work great if you set your sights a little lower and settled for dominion over a country? I have a sneaky suspicion it's a proven method...

Become a House Painter Join a gan of thugs Turn your gang into a polital party Kill or terrify all your main opposition Make all your population build roads or join the miltary Declare war on the world Don't invade Russia in the winter Hey Presto!

The quickest route is rarely a moral one. A man of ability thinks of achievment not of ease. The average man is better of letting someone else take over the world. For it is better to have a smart enemy than a stupid friend. Because the average person will hurt everyone even when he is trying to help. I am not sure hwo said this but it seems to hold true: The difference between socartes and the average man is smaller than the difference between tha verage man and the average mo__y.

Step 1) Controlling the minions: You need to find a way to control a large amount of people, and do it fast so people who aren't controlled will be unable to react in a sufficient amount of time. I would suggest putting a mind control serum into a common food or drink that everyone acceses, or to control a specific demographic (eg. teens and young adults) put the serum in Slurpee machines at 7/11, which seems to be very popular with the kids these days. Or put the serum in a common water source (eg. Water Tower, Town Well, etc) After you hace completed this step and controlled a large amount of people, you are clear to move onto step 2 Step 2) With your newfound minions, you must now simply give them bojectives, and be sure to have loyal followers keep giving the serum and nutrients so that they will stay alive and under control. If you have taken over any of the major military superpowers, you are now in a prime position to use your minions to use your weapons arsenal to strike out at other nearby countries, and threaten far ones with possible nukings, and mass civilian murder. Ofter you have dogged them into submission you are clear to move onto step 3 Step 3) With the majority of countries under your rule, you need to now eliminate any possible transgressors, one approach is to administer world leaders with your mind control serum, thus meaning you can control them from a distance, and as the majority of the population will be scared, and listen to their leader for guidance, you will have the world under your control. Problems: You'll more than likely end up like the USSR

Work your way through millitary ranks and stage a coup d'etat while the president is out of the country, attending a funeral.

Ingest a suitably large volume of hallucinogenics on a daily basis and imagine that you are the leader of the world. You won't be dominating the world, but you won't become corrupted by absolute power, either.

Be the 'meek' one that God leaves the world to, after HE has eliminated ALL the wicked. Psalm 37; 9-13 " 9 For evildoers themselves will be cut off, But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. 10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. 11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. 12 The wicked one is plotting against the righteous one, And at him he is grinding his teeth. 13 Jehovah himself will laugh at him, For he certainly sees that his day will come.

Locate the plans to Tesla's energy ray beam of death thingy that he designed, make it better, and put a ton of them in an elliptical orbit around Earth. problem solved, if they dont' join you, you blow them to crap with somehting that is not a missile :D.

Listen to the words of Gandhi. End of story.

Watch old episodes of "Pinky and the Brain" While playing Risk.

1: Work up the corporate ladder until you have billions of dollars and "Legions" of people working for you. 1.5: While you're at it, make sure your company has top-o'-the-line technology, so you can make better weapons for your "Legions" 1.75: Make the weapons but make them 100% under cover, you don't want people getting suspicious. 2:with your Billions, buy out the leaders of the top countries of the world (China, Russia, America, etc.) And by "Buy out" I mean Bribe, bribe them so much that they will do what ever you want, don't tell anyone about your bribing, don't even tell the leaders that you've bribed others. Congrats! You now have control over vast populations of the world! but if this isn't enough for you, just go to step 3 3: tell Dmitry Medvede (the president of Russia, or who ever is president at the time) to launch some kind of giant robot at Washington D.C. 3.5: Tell Barrak Obama that you have some inside information that Washington will be attacked and to take some very untalented, low-rank military people, promote them to General, slap a spiffy name on them and send them to defeat it. 4:They will never defeat the robot, of course, so when the giant robot defeats the "Elite" team, and is about to destroy the white house, send your Legions out to vanquish the menace, you will become a hero. 4.5: Oh, and save russia from something too. People will wonder why you're saving them, tell them it's because "You want the world to be peaceful" Man, some people are just real suckers for peace. 5: Here it starts to get fun: assassinate everyone you've bribed, the presidents, Vice presidents, and anyone with a claim to the throne, do it with the exact same time, in the exact same way every time. 5.5: step in and create the "Alliance of Something Something Something" which contains all the countries which you already had control, tell everyone "it's only temporary so there will be someone in control until they chose a new leader." That's a lie of course, It's not temporary, it's here to stay. 6: Use the armies to conquer more land, fast. I mean fast like, the next day. You don't want to give people a chance to elect a new leader. Tell them that "The men that are being killed in where ever you are conquering is but a small number compared to those who would die if you didn't." and that "You are purging the world of those who would try to kill others." and other junk like that. Also tell them that the leaders were killed by a secret Communist organization. 6.5: tell you're military to tell all the world leaders that aren't dead yet that "Either you accept our offer to give you X amount of money in exchange for you're country or we kill you and take you're country anyway." Most people will take the X amount of money (I suggest about 50,000 dollars) but it doesn't matter, you get the country either way. 7: Reveal that you have no intention of giving those countries back, again, tell them over and over again that you are working toward world peace and make really good sounding speeches reeking with lies. Some people will likely Hate you more then they hate Obama, but hey you own the world! who cares!

Hate Talk Radio. Ne- Rush Limbaugh.

I am not sure if you could place yourself in power, but you could overthrow the powers of the world by detonating yellowstone. the destruction and climate change that will create will throw all civil order into chaos. once that triggers an ice age I am sure al gores acolytes would hang him up by his own intestine.

...well it is impossible. The bankers have already almost accomplished it. I suppose if you go back into time...come up with a world bank system, then you could dominate the world.

Capitalism. Move your way up a business and start controlling the money. Invest in countries all over the globe, and buy portions of various companies all over the globe, so you have an economic role in as many as possible.

Create plausible but giant lie. Promote fear via propoganda but also provide education to give hope to masses with the only one solution yet known or available to man and possessed by YOU. Sound familiar?

In your dreams.

Voluntary compliance: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1725761

First - you need an evil lair... on the moon or in a volcano...

.well, ..you'Ve heard what happened to alexander thE great, napolean, and hitler.....not recommended. ...unless you haVe a death wish.

Start out as a community organizer in Chicago. Then become friends with every radical and crook in the city. Next run for senate and win buy not having any competitors. Next step, be in the Senate then do nothing while you are there. next to last step, run for president with no credentials, no experience, just a smile, and a catchy slogan that means nothing. Finlay, completely ruin and change your government to please all of the radicals and crooks that you made friends with in the second step. Oh, I forgot, appease and bow down to every dictator and Communist worldwide while bashing your own Country and weakening it's defenses. All of that seems to work