• Montagge@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Yes the billionaire that spent a shit ton on money on gadgets to beat up poor people would definitely be a champion of the people

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      4 months ago

      He also beats up rich people, like the Penguin. The Joker and Riddler and all those guys get their crazy gadgets and hordes of minions somehow. They must be rich af

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        4 months ago

        Upper middle class. They’ve got the kind of money Al Capone had, not the kind of money Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos have.

        Batman generally leaves Lex Luthor, who does have that kind of money, alone. (And I don’t usually read DC, so I may be wrong, but I don’t think he tends to get physical with the court of owls much either…),

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        But all those are poor people who got rich via crime since they didn’t really have other avenues.

        The Batman lore has a lot of hidden messages about social class and hierarchy which doesn’t translate well to today.