Batwerp
Batwerp
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What would Mant do?
You know, the ant with human powers.
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Let me get this straight; this guy was born into the richest family in Gotham. He has enough wealth that he can singlehandedly fund infrastructure changes, public healthcare, mental health resources, social services and rehabilitation. Instead, he uses his money to dress up like a bat so he can beat the shit out of people - and he's supposed to be the hero??
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This is one of the worst commonly-parroted takes in all of comics and it always gets upvoted...by people who have never read a Batman comic.
He literally does all of the things...Rehabilitation is a major theme in Batman. Hell, it might be the MAIN theme lol
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It's been shown to be so close to working that it probably would have if the Heel Face Revolving Door wasn't necessary to sell comics
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This is a 100% fair criticism of my comment tbh. I do have a pretty surface level understanding of Batman, and I let my real life frustration with billionaires inform the points in my comment. I'll take it easier on Bruce Wayne but fuck all other billionaires.
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But because it's comics and they need to keep selling them it's not like things are allowed to truly get better. If it ever does the universe is rebooted and they start over.
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Note: He does fund infrastructure rebuilding, public healthcare, mental health resources, social services, rehabilitation, etc.
Problem is that he also causes a significant amount of those problems himself. Going out in the middle of the night and giving a TBI to a low level thug isn't the way of bringing the city back from the brink.
That being said, depending on the version of Batman it also depends on Gotham itself. The city is literally cursed and goes through shit constantly partially due to that. Gotham is just a home to evil.
All in all? This is why I like Batman Beyond more or the Flashpoint Paradox version of Bats.
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May be in the fictional universe of Batman he attempts to be morally good, but I believe that there is no morally good billionaire regardless of the circumstances, so it seems to me an attempt to justify them in some particular cases, yet I think that it cannot hold that such concentration of power and resources can be morally good in a whole society ethos, the good tyrant only rises by unplanned luck and resolves immediately in wise redistribution, it cannot sustain in time.
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Meh, if I had a billion or two, I'd keep at least one billion, just to be safer from the other billionaires. That way, I have war money I guess.
I'd spend most of my money just on medical checkups, therapists, coaches, I would pay a maid, get into some elite fitness program, go to an university, and whatever time is left, I'd go around helping directly. I'd strategically target entire areas to try and convince people to go solar, permaculture, etc. I don't see anything better to do with my life.
I would probably actually try an experiment with building a city out in the sea, the thing Peter Thiel claims he wants, but actually do it, in order to do a social experiment to see what happens when people have something like UBI, free healthcare, education, etc. They idea would be that hopefully, investing in people in this way would pay itself back.
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It's the same guy that watched his parents die with a gun in front of his eyes and yet his biggest fear is bats.
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Ohh, he has way more fears than that!
https://youtu.be/on4aD02llas
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Yeah bbbbbuut he's got a code.
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How are funding all that stop Penguin and Joker from literally destroy it, and then Scarecrow poison everyone just for fun? It's like letting billionaire run wild while we actively trying to solve climate change
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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.
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
No amount of "proper charity" is going to outweigh the about of suffering necessary to have that absolutely ridiculous sum of money
Gotham's government is also roughly 97% organized crime families, so throwing money at the problem only goes so far.
Need to churn out comics every month. Superheros' real enemy is neverending stories.
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.