How come Batman doesn't just buy the guns and drugs in Gotham if he hates them so much? Why does he go out doing karate on heroin dealers instead of investing in social programs while plowing Catwoman or Silver St. Cloud or whoever he feels like pumping and dumping that month?
How is this dude the smartest guy in the world? At least Guy Gardner and Hal embrace the fact that they are severely retarded instead of saying one thing and doing another?
Yes the point that Bruce Wayne could help Gotham in many better ways than dressing up as a bat and personally fighting criminals has been brought up many times. The usual arguement is that Batman is a vent for his angst in a way that less direct ways of helping never could be. Comics are weird sometimes.
You can't remove all guns and drugs from black markets.
Most guns come from black markets.
Okay, he needs to release steam by punching people, fine, but what the fuck does Wayne Enterprises do then? Why doesn't he give some money to Arkham so that the Clock King stops breaking out every hour on the hour?
he does do stuff like that though
Crime in Gotham isn't committed by normal criminals, but by super criminals. Their motivations are that they fell into a vat of something and now they're super crazy and want to fuck everything up, so the boring answer of economic reform and rehabilitation doesn't work.
Besides that, Batman is actually making the world a safer place by drawing all the super criminals to Gotham. For some reason, they can't resist going after Gotham, so Batman actually protects much more than just his city.
Why doesn't he do it more if it isn't working though? It's not like it can't be done. Oliver Queen does it for Star City and it isn't the fucking shithole that Gotham is
I undertsnad maybe the poors can't leave gotham because the rent is super cheap, and that the rent is cheap because there is a 100% certainty that Poison Ivy will show up to sodomize you with her new devilcactus.
I get that there are rich crimebosses like Carmine or whoever who are too stubborn to cede their stations to Scarecrow's gang or whatever, and service people who feel duty bound to help all those poor simpletons.
But there are plenty of rich, intelligent people who choose to stay. Why do they do this? Wayne hosts events and balls and galas and shit for socialites. Why do they stay? Why did they build an elite prep school across the street from fucking Gotham?
Gotham is literally cursed, m8
He puts massive amounts of money and effort into city development and political campaigning. This has been shown over and over and over and over in the comics since the 70's and even in the movies yet people cannot seem to get this through their heads.
Batman is there to go after the problems you can't just make go away with money. You know, like a guy shooting two people in an alley in front of their kids to get some quick cash. Or a literal serial killer clown who constantly outwits the authorities. Or a fucking man made of fucking phosphorus.
This was even the entire central conceit of the Dark Knight, the Batman movie literally everyone and their grandma has seen, yet people just do not get it and keep asking this retarded "lol why does batman dress liek bat when he cud just buy crime away lol" question.
you're retarded
Wayne enterprises probably causes some of the crime he tries to fight
If he buys them then the dealers are just going to turn around and get more drugs and guns and sell those and potentially further their operations. He should just steal them and keep them all in the batcave
Because he wants to dress up as a bat and fight crime to distract himself from coming to terms with his homosexuality.
>Buy all guns and drugs
>Holy fuck Gotham is a huge market for drugs and guns! Push more drugs and guns into it!
>End up with more guns and drugs on the market
Do you even market forces?
Superheroes are a fantasy genre you spergs.
>take all the guns and drugs
>smelt the guns into braces for kids with bad teeth
>sell the narcotics are painkillers and anesthesia
>open waynetech orthodontic suppliers
>Become even richer
>Demand for guns outpaces manufacturer's ability to create them
>They overexert themselves and go bankrupt
What's the problem?
>buy all the guns and drugs
>durrr okay the market is done, pack up we're done.
this would viciously expand the market you silly-pants.
why doesn't Batman build an anti-gun and drug machine that automatically deletes guns and drugs
>Batman buys all the guns in the black market at high prices
>Gun theft becomes a thing in gotham
isn't that basically what omacs did?
That's not how things work.
>Gun and drugs sellers keep raising prices as demand outstrips supply and yet their merchandise keeps being bought
>Keep plowing money back into operations while making profit.
Look at what happened to .22lr over the last eight years.
>buy all the guns and drugs
>market gets flooded
>buy all them as well
>sell them all back to the streets at a mark up
>build more cool batshit
>Batman selling black market guns and drugs to the community.
I think you've missed the point.
How does that work? They'll just shoot you with the gun and give Batman cause to punch you and take it
What are we doing here? What's the endgame?
Nonsense. More bat-money means more bat-justice. Everybody wins, apart from the criminals.
>can't refute
>better insult him
>can't insult
>better refute him
Why don't you just put the whole world in your wallet, Batman?
>buy all the guns and drugs
>Black market dealers make a huge profit, go out and buy more guns and drugs to sell
>Bruce can't get around fast enough to keep buying all the guns at once
>Crime continues
Works great for the FBI!
lol
It's because in reality Bruce Wayne is only one step away from insanity. Childhood trauma, especially watching your own parents die in front of you, messes you up pretty bad. After all, what sane man would dress up as a bat and spend the rest of his life waging an unending crusade on crime?
Star City isn't built on top of hell's asshole though.
Great argument, what sane person would dress as a blue beatle?
In Secret Six the entrance to hell is in like, Akron Ohio or some shit
Use the gun buying as the carrot and use Batman punching your testicles in as the stick
boom, no more crime
The better question is why Batman doesn't buy significant portions of the coca crop, raw coca is only worth $500 per ton, which would subsidize poor South American farmer while creating massive drug shortages and price spikes that would destabilize the Mexican cartels in the short-term?
Why doesn't Batman use activist investing to buy out gun manufacturers, consolidate them as much as possible, then stop manufacturing; massively decreasing supply while creating extreme market shocks that would kill a large portion of gun stores then use lobbying to enact a multitude of laws on the local level to impede the operation of remaining gun stores/gun manufacturers and prevent the creation of new ones?
I would read a comic where batman tries to punch the second amendment in the dick
Has there ever been a Batman comic where he can't vent violently but still has to maintain his presence as the head of his company?
>Jessica Cruz becomes a billionaire overnight flipping the three storage sheds worth of guns she accumulated during her paranoid survivalist phase
Star City wasn't nearly as fucked up as Gotham was to begin with though.
In the DCverse Gotham is the largest city in the USA at over 12 million people. It doesn't make much sense, but there you go. Presumably there are wealthier less shitty parts.
The problem is that high crime rates will drive out the middle class and create wealthy enclaves. Realistically Gotham would have a large suburban and micro-urban area surrounding it where the bulk of the population lives. Using the 12 million number you'd probably see about 4 million living in Gotham City limits while the rest live in the greater Gotham Metropolitan Area. Batman himself, notably, doesn't actually live in Gotham City proper.
There's several mouths of hell, gotham is a damned city and a mouth of hell.
So, basically everyone lives in the Burnsides. Ugh. I hate it. :)
Burnside type areas would come later, and mostly be descended from small bohemian communities that would pop up to take advantage of the depressed real estate prices. Redevelopment into something like Burnside would come a few years later if the bohemian enclaves managed to stabilize. Gentrification doesn't really take off until crime rates in an area begin to decline; in real life you see gentrified areas tending to ring the wealthy sections and remaining middle class areas when crime rates remain high, where they represent a transitional socio-economic zone. That is assuming no large scale, top-down economic redevelopment is taking place like what happened in NYC during the 90s.
Because it would create a high demand and every weapons and drug dealer would want a piece of Gotham.
Gotham is a hellhole that whole Bloohaven is worse was some dumbshit they said to make Nightwing look cool.
Bludhaven was just pre-Batman Gotham.
because investing in social programs never works.
the easy thing is to sell and do drugs.
and lazy people will continue that activity as long as it is easy to do
Wait, I thought the Bludhaven thing was that it was worse than Gotham, but only because Gotham isn't at bad as it used to be. It BECAME the worst city after Batman started operating in Gotham.