Gotham is a city with a poor economy, high crime rate and increased poverty. Instead of distributing his money to try and fix these issues, Bruce Wayne decides to spend his billions on a car with guns and lasers as well as a suit which can’t fly
He absolutely did use his fortunes to create social welfare programs and fund education and improve mental health care and train and equip the police forces and all that good shit
Then he discovered that his town was still full of mass murderers wearing clown suits who fucked shit up for giggles in spite of every reasonable countermeasure.
So he resorted to the unreasonable countermeasures, like personally punching them in the face while wearing a fursuit.
if a criminal wants to reform and isn’t all that awful in the first place, Bruce Wanye’s company has policies where they’ll hire ex cons to get a second chance
Bruce also has tons of charity drives and he quietly finances infrastructure, gives to charity himself, lets the news rooms he owns tell truth to power, and he publicly endorses and finances political candidates that pledge to fight corruption
The problem is, you fucking peice of shit redditor pond scum is that Gotham City is hugely corrupt, with crooked cops, politicians and organized crime all in bed with each other
our boy Brucie throws money at the wrong thing? It’s gonna end up in a criminal orgs coffers
and Bruce Wayne has competition on the business front from multiple crooked and amoral CEOs and other corporate types, like oh, FUCKING LEX LUTHOR
he’s also on the board of Arkham and finances studies into mental health but the problem is Arkham got turned into a metahuman/mutant prison as well as a mental health facility, and mixing prisoners and mentally ill doesn’t end well
and finally, Batman is an identity and symbol of absolute last resort because you cannot just throw money at fucking homicidal clowns, sociopathic mercenaries, and an organization of deranged ecoterrorists to make them go away
go watch Batman The Animated Series and shut the fuck up
reddit be like
See also: “Superman is just a dumb tank who relies exclusively on his super-strength and invulnerability and never uses his brain. Also, his physical invulnerability means no good stories can be told about him.”
well i guess this is it 