• III@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    instead of using his seemingly infinite wealth to engage in any real systemic change

    Do we know this? I don’t follow the comics at all but do they ever go into the things Bruce Wayne does as CEO of Wayne Enterprises? I can’t fathom we have gone decades without someone touching on this.

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      4 months ago

      i don’t follow the comics but things that are established that i know of are:

      • Bruce Wayne is insanely wealthy
      • Uses his wealth for his bat-themed middle age crisis (bat sports car, bat private jet, bat motorcycle, bat gondola probably)
      • Other than that the best thing he does for other people is “philanthropy” (in the real world this is a scam by the wealthy) unless you count taking in his young lover sidekick
      • The police and the politicians are extremely corrupt and are for sale.

      Now from all this i gather it would be very easy for Bruce to get actual political power in Gotham to make real change but he doesn’t do it because running around in a furry costume is more fun.

      Even apart from that, sneaking around in a costume talking about how you’re the night or the knight or whatever is on its own very cringe and psychotic.