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It's a controversial opinion because it's ill-informed. Bruce Wayne does give the majority of his money to charity. Even Superman, the goodest person on earth, looks up to him. But no amount of funding food banks or building low-income housing is going to uncurse the cursed land that Gotham is built on
Yeah I recall half the issue being that Gotham is so corrupt, any money is going to be wasted, which is why the Wayne family has to have its own charities to accomplish anythign at all.
Atleast in reality, a lot of the time corruption happens is because people don't get paid enough to have the luxury of principles/integrity.
So it's a case of self fulfilling prophecy
Clarence totes needed that lux RV
Fair point, but that's also why every branch of government also needs to be beholden to another which did not sign them in the first place.
The fact that they are assigned for life is a glaring potential for abuse.
Also every person in every governmental position from county to federal needs a no confidence/recall method.
If the system allows it, someone will have that lack of integrity you speak of to fill that hole. The system's the issue and money helps to gather power in a capitalistic system.
ill informed
And this is where I ask if I even give you the time of day. I don't think you understand the failures of modern charity in contrast to, say, the general fund of an actually-democratic society.
In fact, Oakland, California IRL is doing a lot of the things that Gotham should be doing including food banks and low-income housing projects, but also extending the list of 911 responders to provide alternatives to a police force that is eager to escalate to violence and can't handle mental health crises, kids programs, school breakfast and lunch programs. You know, the kinds of things that an actual society might do.
Unless you're arguing there's a literal magical curse on the city of Gotham, in which case no amount of face-punching thugs is going to help either, and DC's writing is proving as consistent as ever.
I posted below in more depth regarding the serious failure of the Batman paradigm, and would argue the fantasy is as much utopianism as Starship Troopers.
There literally is lmfao