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Bruce supposedly does a lot of proper charity in addition to the costume crime fighting cause he's not stupid. Aparently Gotham is just straight up cursed in multiple ways which I'm choosing to believe is an allegory for how you can't change the system from within and not just a reason to have more fun punching.
No amount of "proper charity" is going to outweigh the about of suffering necessary to have that absolutely ridiculous sum of money
No amount of "proper charity" is going to outweigh the
Need to churn out comics every month. Superheros' real enemy is neverending stories.
"what a boring issue! no crimefighting, no investigations, just bruce doing charity work! wheres the excitement here?!?"
Gotham's government is also roughly 97% organized crime families, so throwing money at the problem only goes so far.
He likely had end global hunger levels of wealth though. Fixing Gotham is too small scale.
But honestly he could make a massive NGO to fix Gotham
Are you saying that's not the case IRL?
Politicians certainly act like they're part of an organized system of oppression against the masses....
This can be directly related to real life. Probably one of the most notable philanthropists of our time is Bill Gates.
While I can absolutely applaud that he is finding charities and organisations that help people, I have a hard time doing so because people like him, with that much wealth, exist.
Billionaires can only exist by robbing the common man (customers, employees, etc) of their hard earned money, through stagnant wages that are so far below what should be earned for the work being done that the employee is effectively losing money by working there, and prices so high that the customers are effectively robbed by paying so much for what they're getting....
There's so much pain and suffering that can be attributed, either directly or indirectly, to the accumulation of wealth, and the hoarding of that wealth, by the 1%, that it is impossible to feel good about the fact that any one person has that much, while others are losing their homes, their jobs, their families, their livelihoods, because all of their money is being funneled upwards to those who have a disproportionately large amount of money already.
It's stealing a relatively small amount from a relatively large group of poor people, so that the rich can be richer. And the act is handwaived by many as "it's only $x" where X is considered to be a small amount of money.... Justifying further robbery from the poor as normal.
Yeah that's where the suspension of disbelief starts to crack
Or to put it another way, gifting a portion of the stolen value back might be better than nothing but it still isn't good.
One of the most well-established pieces of the Batman mythos is that Batman is the true identity and Bruce is the mask. Everything Bruce Wayne does is just to keep up appearances.
I mean there's dozens if not hundreds of different continuities. Comics are wild
And they want us to root for the trust fund billionaire…
Well, you don't in this series anyway
I root for Mr.Freeze
Lexcorp has used Gothams unique architectural heritage to push some of the strictist zoning laws on the planet after buying up all the housing in the "gotham minimum" between Thomas Dying and Bruce getting active.
What would Mant do?
You know, the ant with human powers.
Build a colony, perhaps.
Great level of hypocrisy, well that's quite realistic. The United States may soon become a second Gotham...
