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People of Lemmy, I dare you to name ONE billionaire that's done anything good. (lemm.ee)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruce Wayne.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Own the largest monopoly in Gotham City.

Hoard and trickle up all the wealth.

The severe income inequity foments criminal activity and mass discontent.

Waste the money on private military research.

Run around dressed as a bat beating people to a vegetative state, launching them into medical debt with the police's unofficial support.

[โ€“] torvusbogpod 6 points 1 year ago

The new movie actually addresses that by having his parents previously attempt to do "Gotham Renewal," but it collapses into a corrupt mob slush fund and doesn't actually help the disadvantaged at all. That's why he fights with his fists - because they will never collapse into greed like his parents' attempts at reform and reconstruction did.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instead of tackling the systemic issues that cause the problems of gotham city (which he is directly responsible), he decides to beat people up. Kind of tells how shallow minded the writers are.

[โ€“] aaaa 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the comics, the writers regularly show how he is directly involved with the Wayne foundation, which runs social service programs and provides aid for people who need it. More than once he has offered jobs at Waynetech to street thugs that are obviously just down on their luck and need a break.

This was brought up often in the 90s Animated Series as well as the Arkham games... unfortunately the movies rarely make time to show this. The Nolan movies tried, but it didn't come across very well.

The systemic issues in Gotham are regularly shown to be in spite of the Wayne family, rather than because of them. It's unrealistic, but hey, it's fiction