Need? Nobody needs a billionaire who dresses in leather and enjoys close combat with mentally ill people.

How about better mental health services besides an asylum that radicalizes them further?

This is the overarching premise of many of the modern stories. Systemic issues cannot be solved by a barely sane, generationally wealthy MMA fighter perpetually drowning beneath waves of survivor’s guilt.

In unrelated news Wayne industries blames "harmful and unreasonable" government regulations, threatens to move to Metropolis.

So I've not really read the comic books, but I've seen every movie and TV series and the one thing that sticks out in those to me is that almost every villain could have been stopped by Bruce Wayne (not Batman) if he stopped dressing up like a bat to beat up low-level thugs and took some time seriously examining his own companies. Either safety issues created mutants, or the oppressive culture drove former employees insane/radicalized them. The only person within the DC universe that sees this is Alfred, and Bruce never fucking listens to him.

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The director of Star Trek II was unfamiliar with the show when he was hired. One of the things he did to make the Enterprise more realistic was to add "No Smoking" and other safety signs to the sets.

I'm sure a good social security net along with free housing would be a good prevention as well

I forget where I heard it but someone said batman is pretty much what you'd get from a libertarian version of defund the police, I'm not sure I'd rather the normal cops have access to his stuff honestly I think I would be better for him to keep it or only like a swat like team(getting swatted by them could more funny if you got frozen solid by a gizmo or something)

Bruce Wayne "should I setup mental health and income support for the people like my father, or buy new toys for myself and some cosplay and cause them I life changing injuries"

It’s not like he didn’t have the money to create the organization. Gotham City is just firefighter arson to Bruce Wayne.

More OSHA means less money for Mr Batman's alert ego.

And that is a line batman will not cross.

Batman could solve more crime by domating some of his vast wealth to support the impoverished in Gotham than he ever does by beating up criminals.

It's not what Gotham needs but it's what it deserves!

Weird how Batman is a billionaire & yet there’s always enough crime & problems to keep people Thankful for His Heroic Deeds 🤔

Idk what a COSHH form is but my brain filled it in with hyperhyperbolic cosine

Fewer. Not ‘less’.