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Billionaires and the climate
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andrew carnegie literally wrote a book about how the point of doing philanthropy is to buy off rubes like you, and yet rubes like you still buy it. Amazing.
Dude, it's comic books. People fly around in their underpants and shoot lasers from their eyes. The conceit of Batman is that yes, he's nuts, but the Wayne's have always been intense philanthropists. Like, actually "good" billionaires, also very comic books and just as likely in our world as laser eyed underpants flying people.
The current conceit is that it doesn't matter what you do in Gotham, underwear or hundreds of billions in goodwill. It will consume you and any who exist in its domain.
Sounds like pure ideology, you don't need to uncritically accept the conceits of a setting.
The settings conceits shift at a whim, and have done so for 80+ years. They exist, then don't. They all warp and change however is needed by whoever is needed.
At one point, a dude punches reality. Literally hits reality with his fists.
Its fine to argue about any art form, but I think the most pertinent critique of comics is that it's art for capital. Any story element or setting is for sale in our world. Taking the inner world at any face value while ignoring that is pointless.
Uhh yeah that is my point
I'm glad we agree?
Hahaha, no such thing. How did they get their billions?
Where did the billions come from? 
The writers pen.
A batman comic book does not have realistic economic systems. Its all hand-wavy bullshit in-service of Batman flying around doing whatever.
idk sounds like you're the one full of hand wavy bullshit
Ok. Doesn't sound like great world-building to me. There's a reason I don't like capeshit. But enjoy your crappy stories about a shitty billionaire and the unrealistic impossibly broken city he beats people up in.
Hey thanks, I will.