He gives it away to charities and organizations that embezzle the money, use a part of it to bribe and threaten their way into decriminalizing their actions and use the rest to steal and hoard even more money in order to wrest control over the populace and treat everyone as less than shit.
There are a ton of ways to make the Batman paradigm better. One would be just to have him go after his own kind: The Sacklers and Pfizer. The DeVosses and Constellis (formerly Academi, formerly Xe International, formerly Blackwater PMC), The Kochs and big oil and big automotive.
Batman doesn’t. He goes after street crime, even though elite deviance / white-collar crime causes more loss of life, more destruction and more cost than all the petty crime combined by multiple orders of magnitude.
So you’re not even effing trying. You’re making excuses for Detective Comics and should feel shame.
You don’t want to give it all away, even in death, that’s a fail. Now the rich man has no money to grow, nothing left to give in the future. That’s why smart money sets up endowments. The principle earns interest, the interest pays for whatever charity or cause in perpetuity.
There’s an Indian proverb about a rich man who travels the country giving 100 rupees to every beggar he sees. Eventually he has no more money and becomes a beggar himself. In the end, he made no impact on the world and now has no more opportunity to do so.
You know what would make a great comic book story? A rich man giving all his money away. The end. Wow what a read, are you publishing?
It would be a fun little limited alternative universe run to release starting on April 1 or something.
He gives it away to charities and organizations that embezzle the money, use a part of it to bribe and threaten their way into decriminalizing their actions and use the rest to steal and hoard even more money in order to wrest control over the populace and treat everyone as less than shit.
Better?
They said comic book story … not modern day geopolitics
There are a ton of ways to make the Batman paradigm better. One would be just to have him go after his own kind: The Sacklers and Pfizer. The DeVosses and Constellis (formerly Academi, formerly Xe International, formerly Blackwater PMC), The Kochs and big oil and big automotive.
Batman doesn’t. He goes after street crime, even though elite deviance / white-collar crime causes more loss of life, more destruction and more cost than all the petty crime combined by multiple orders of magnitude.
So you’re not even effing trying. You’re making excuses for Detective Comics and should feel shame.
That would be more in character as a detective, but Batman’s been more an action hero for decades.
Maybe he could, maybe he should, maybe he would. The character might, but if the writers don’t, then that’s not on the character.
I’m taking batman, you’re talking the company writing him. So there’s no reason why I should feel shame, but you might for mixing up the two.
You don’t want to give it all away, even in death, that’s a fail. Now the rich man has no money to grow, nothing left to give in the future. That’s why smart money sets up endowments. The principle earns interest, the interest pays for whatever charity or cause in perpetuity.
There’s an Indian proverb about a rich man who travels the country giving 100 rupees to every beggar he sees. Eventually he has no more money and becomes a beggar himself. In the end, he made no impact on the world and now has no more opportunity to do so.
I assure you, if Ursula K LeGuin would have written it, the story would slap af.