• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Batman could solve more crime by domating some of his vast wealth to support the impoverished in Gotham than he ever does by beating up criminals.

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      7 months ago

      Isn’t it canon that he does that a lot already?

      It’s just that it’s like filling a sieve with a tap. Unless you block the holes, you’re never going to get anywhere.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Yep. Batman deals with immediate problems, like someone being mugged, and Bruce deals with long term problems, like governmental corruption. And Bruce actually is fairly consistently depicted as having made progress there. Supervillains and the Court of Owls continue to be problems, but he’s usually dismantled the local mafias and cut down on police corruption inside of a few years.