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.
No amount of “proper charity” is going to outweigh the about of suffering necessary to have that absolutely ridiculous sum of money
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.
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?!?”
“and where’s that creepy dog dragon”
Gotham’s government is also roughly 97% organized crime families, so throwing money at the problem only goes so far.
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…
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
Global hunger is an issue of control, not wealth.
It 100% is a wealth issue. You have to get the resources and build the distribution networks. Those things take money
He has the wealth to create the necessary distribution networks. That’s the biggest hurdle.
Sure some countries may not open their borders or allow the assistance in, but that’s not the majority of people in need.
At the grandest scale all problems are a wealth issue. It’s rather reductionist to write off the many other problems by just saying it’s money.
:P
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.