Explain WHY /b/? WHY???

Because to be rich you must be evil or ignorant of the evil you do.

>Name one billionaire that didn't do something fucked up to get their money.

>>723174032
because this is real life not a fag contest
also
>expecting rich people to care about plebs

>>723174032
Because Batman has PTSD and Peter Pan syndrome. And super ninja/rambo training.

>>723174125
Bill?

>>723174032
Because it's dangerous, expensive, illegal, and you'd only be able to do it for a couple years even if you had the PERFECT genetics, training, and mindset?

Look, DC canon may say batman isn't superhuman, but if you look at his skills/feats, he has done some straight up superhuman shit, not least of which is constantly getting hurt, never resting, and somehow staying healthy.

>>723174125
Bill Gates, I'd think.

JK Rowling? She just writes books.

>>723174179
>>723174265
They also need to be capable of fighting tho so I think Bill is out. Too old.

>>723174265
She promotes war and violence; finish the series dude.

>>723174219
Plus the most ridiculously OP plot armor in the history of fiction

>>723174179
Bill gates? You mean the guy who stole the GUI from lexmark? Or how about how microsoft got in trouble for trying to kill off all other web browsers?

>>723174125
Anyone who has ever sold a website to google, or patented a useful invention.

>>723174265
>imagining jk rowling as batman

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becauase bullets hit/kill you instant instantly. they hit you before you hear the bang.

also there are no high tech gadgets

>>723174032
Batman beats up poor and mentally ill people for fun. Real billionaires pay security firms and police to do it for them

>>723174345
Very few patents are done by actual people. Most are done by corporations and cause more harm than good.

>>723174408
What sucks is the only thing holding back technology these days is batteries.

>>723174032
It's pmostly a matter of time and training. Consider that Batman would be able to beat any MMA fighter in the world, and these are guys who train every day for years to get as good as they are, spending every spare iota of energy and thought on getting better at their craft, and that's just ONE example of the people Batman has to beat at their own game.

So Batman has to be on their level, while also being on the level of the world's best detectives, forensic scientists, criminologists, psychologists, actors, engineers, chemists, and tacticians. You could spend 8 years studying any ONE of those disciplines, and not have everything down yet.

And he needs to master them all.

So, you have a person whose window for the physical shit is going to be about 15-35, who has 50+ years of study to get through, and a window about 1-3 years wide to actually perform as batman one he gets going, because being in combat and getting hurt every day fucks up your health really, REALLY damn fast. Read stories about soldiers who are in extended battles lasting weeks or months. When they come back, they're beaten to shit, even if they have no direct injuries, and it takes quite a while to recover.

>>723174125

>le fat pig man with tophat may may

>>723174314
>>723174357
He just said name a billionaire who hasn't done shady shit to get rich, and I was naming the two best I could think of.

>>723174604
capitalist pig spotted

>>723174333
No, squirrel girl takes that cake. A normal teenage girl who can beat Galactus in a fight is the paragon of plot armor.

>>723174179
The guy whose company made its money through unfair business practices and stealing from other companies?

>>723174125
Warren Buffet?

>>723174839
Citation needed.

>>723174546
>>723174219
You're getting too real here, memes only please.

>>723174839
+got rich by taking government MIT developed technology and patenting it

>>723174839
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

For starters.

>>723174869
See
>>723175001

>>723174342
>Bill gates? You mean the guy who stole the GUI from lexmark?
Nigger, do you have any idea what you are talking about?

>>723174032
Because Batman is just a fairytale and actual billionaires live in real life.

>>723175001
Okay, that's an antitrust lawsuit.

The main issue of the case is Microsoft winning the browser wars back in the day, and then not giving the little guys legal access to Internet Explorer unless they wanted to pay to work with/on windows. This wasn't some hand wringing, cackling evil plan to shut down the industry, it was everybody buying microsoft's shit because it worked best.

>>723174032
Because Batman is a contrived character that wouldn't work in real life? Elon might try for Iron Man. At least that design makes sense since his weakness wouldn't be "literally anyone with a handgun and aim".

>>723174032
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s3f7PtKACuc

>>723175279
>Elon might try for Iron Man
Iron man doesn't really work from a science standpoint either. You'd need extensive modification to your organs in order to not just die from the G forces when rapidly changing speed in flight.

>>723175279
>elon musk goes on his first crime fighting mission
>attempts to land his armor suit
>absolutely blows up on impact, killing anyone within a one mile raidius

>>723175432
I mean, it doesn't need to fly, I figure an exoskeleton and wearable armour would be enough. Or an AI controlling in-flight maneuvers so it doesn't accidentally make Musk soup.

>>723175471
Now THAT is funny.

>>723174514
Size of electric motors too.

>>723175725
>I mean, it doesn't need to fly, I figure an exoskeleton and wearable armour would be enough.
Again, doesn't work too well, because weapons have beaten armor in that particular technology race. There's really no armor that can't be punched through with the right weapon. When things get too thick for ballistic weapons, you just start using anti armor missiles.

>>723175272
Antitrust, i.e., unfair business practices, like I said. Don't forget the EU fined them a shit ton of money for unfair business practices as well. Here they are stealing search results from Google:
http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914

Microsoft also settled out of court with Caldera in 1996 for unfair practices.

Microsoft got busted by Sun for releasing its own flavors of Java.

The only reason MS Office eventually overtook Novell's office suite is because MS disabled APIs third party software vendors relied upon just months before Windows 95 was released, while still keeping those APIs available to its own competing products: https://www.law360.com/articles/516635/novell-takes-microsoft-antitrust-fight-to-high-court

And so on and so on.

>>723176117
That's interesting, didn't know that. I'll be viewing microsoft a little less favorably from now on.

So I guess it's down to JK Rowling to be batman.

>>723176062
Wait, who is he supposed to be going against? I'm picturing the usual criminals with glocks and shit. Maybe a high-powered rifle or two. Unless he's gonna be going into some African warlords shithole I'm not really expecting RPGs.

>>723174032
There can only be one Batman.

>>723176343
>Unless he's gonna be going into some African warlords shithole I'm not really expecting RPGs.
He has to go to third world shitholes. If he tries that shit in the US the Airforce or Army will kill him so fucking fast, ditto for most advanced countries I'd guess. I don't know where you're from, but around here we get touchy about people running around gunning down criminals in the streets. That's what cops are for.

>>723176423
Actually, there have been five that I can think of off the top of my head.

>>723175725
Why even make it a suit? Just build a bunch of drones and be a remote vigilante.

>>723176336
Don't forget that Microsoft also funded a lawsuit by SCO in an attempt to eliminate the Linux operating system (which Ballmer called "a cancer"), and in 2012 Microsoft was a top contributor to Linux mainly because it stole a bunch of open source code in writing its hypervisor software, was caught, and so then was forced to contribute its code back to the kernel under the terms of Linux's open source licenses.

>>723177069
Now I'm picturing Musk having an over-the-top Deathnote montage of him killing hundreds of criminals a night with an army of drones. Thank you for that.

>>723177069
If Musk builds a fleet of drones they're probably going to be spying on actresses, not fighting crime. Musk is... Weird.

>>723177069
lamest shit ive ever heard. imagine a superhero assasinating dope dealers using small drones with gopros and handguns taped to them

>>723174125

This is ancient knowledge.

It has been long established that past being successful and prosperous, there is a point where your riches indicate you've stepped over others to obtain that amount.

>I'll say it again--it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"

Rich people have long been recognized as one of the least virtuous groups. The path to extreme wealth and the effect it has on the person who wields it are both well established sources of corruption.

>>723177414

I'm imagining an obese hero.

>>723177907
>Scene where elon is begging the US government to subsidy another XXXL power suit

>>723174265
>JK Rowling
>Billionaire
Are you faggots even serious.

And Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell are the worst scumbags-slavemongers that ever existed.

>>723174408
Armor. The best armor money can buy.

>>723176583
Have you seen two Batmen in the same movie?

>>723174032
Because in the real world, Batman would get arrested.

>>723174762
Also it was definitely the real Galactus and not a clone, copy, or simulacrum.

>>723178592
Are you retarded? She was the first novelist with titties to become a billionaire.

>>723178592
Okay, so technically she's not a billionaire anymore, because she gave so much of her money to charity, but she WAS a billionaire and is a good person, so she's closer to batman than most.

>>723174032
Because Batman cares about his fellow man. Rich people usually do not.
>>723178715
Yeah because we're just sending so many billionaires to prison for their crimes.

>>723178625
Wasn't talking about movies, I was talking about comic books. Bruce Wayne isn't the only batman.

Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Azrael, and Terry Guinness have all been Batman at one time or another.

>>723178907
batman is not a good person. he a reactionary mentally ill sociopath that beats up homeless people as a hobby

>>723179042
>he a reactionary mentally ill sociopath that beats up homeless people as a hobby
>le batman is an uncontrolled monster meme
How about you actually read some batman and THEN make that judgement?

>>723179038

>disregarding Jean Paul's name

Casual.

>>723179117
im not a nerd anon i aint reading shit. ive seen the movies and thats enough

>>723179263
Okay, but they're not canon, so you shouldn't pretend like you know anything about it.

>>723174032
most of them are Jewish
most of them support crime
most of them are fucking old
most of them are cowards
most of them are sadistic

>>723175279
but but... anon Batman is waaaay cooler.

>>723179117
The beating up homeless thing isn't quite right, but Batman is broken, it's what makes him Batman. The guy hyper-fixates on being Batman, he has cut out every aspect of his life that doesn't facilitate him being a better Batman. He is incapable of having a normal relationship with another person and only cultivates relationships that might one day be useful for being Batman. He's a crazy person. Utterly obsessed with being Batman to the point where everything in his world is bent back to that goal. You can't have Batman without single-minded obsession, a well adjusted person couldn't do it.

>>723179481
>most of them are Jewish
big nosed, black haired, blue eyed billionaire.
>support crime
Batman enables criminals. Gotham's infrastructure isn't looking too good, is it?
>fucking old
Read Dark Knight Returns. Batman keeps Batmanning till he's an old bastard.
>cowards
Well, you've got that one.
>sadistic
The dude beats up poor criminals for fun.

>>723179450
movie batman is more canon than comic book batman. fact

>>723179619
I agree, there's just a lot of nuance there. Is he insane? Certifiably. But some people make it out like he's waiting outside liquor stores to beat up hobos if they come out without a bag over their bottle, which isn't the case. He's messed up, but 99% of the time he channels it towards a good end, so to describe him as an unhinged monster is inaccurate.

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>>723179714

Which movie Batman, anon?

>>723179714
>more canon
That's... That's not how anything works. Canon is an absolute state. You can't be more or less canon.

>>723174125
Dr. Dre?

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The real question is if Martin Shkreli owns a volcano island yet.

Batman sucks really hard. Overrated as fuck

>>723174125
Elon? He's had some shady interpersonal stuff, but no business misdeeds I'm aware of.

>>723179861
le dark knight

>>723179714
Okay, I'm about 75% sure this is bait, but on the off chance it isn't, do you understand what canon means in this context?

Because as soon as you become Batman, up pops a Joker, and then you gotta fight. Fuckin' hassle, man.

>>723174032


Being "WEALTHY" is about having so much money, your managment of that money, and the goal of your life then becomes to keep it.

currency is fiat, aand teh FDIC only allows 250k insured on accounts. So, the best way to keep wealth, and preserve it, is to put large amounts into bond or high-yeild CDs over 10-20-30 years. have hundreds of high-yield savings accounts all over the world filtering their interests into a slush-account(s).


With this kind of wealth, you fractionate expendable parts of it into high-risk investments, into global development or resource rights, into precious metals as a hedge against global collapse - kinda shit.

The last thing you do with this kind of wealth is becomes a ninja that fights crime. If bruce wayne wanted to fight crime well enough, he would would just give his wealth over to an agency designed to produce better static conditions for a community to become wealthy. . . not kill Hench men and risk his own life (and resources) to accomplish a civic task.

The enemy with that much wealth really is the government, as any self-bettering intent to better the community most effectively is never aided in giving money away - when it comes to the government (they tax over gifts of 5k).

>>723174032
How would you know?

>>723174546
>It's pmostly a matter of time and training. Consider that Batman would be able to beat any MMA fighter in the world, and these are guys who train every day for years to get as good as they are, spending every spare iota of energy and thought on getting better at their craft, and that's just ONE example of the people Batman has to beat at their own game.
>So Batman has to be on their level, while also being on the level of the world's best detectives, forensic scientists, criminologists, psychologists, actors, engineers, chemists, and tacticians. You could spend 8 years studying any ONE of those disciplines, and not have everything down yet.
>And he needs to master them all.
>So, you have a person whose window for the physical shit is going to be about 15-35, who has 50+ years of study to get through, and a window about 1-3 years wide to actually perform as batman one he gets going, because being in combat and getting hurt every day fucks up your health really, REALLY damn fast. Read stories about soldiers who are in extended battles lasting weeks or months. When they come back, they're beaten to shit, even if they have no direct injuries, and it takes quite a while to recover.

WOW, this is real shit. This is my level. Thanks

>>723174546
Op here.
You have a point.
Modern batman would have to be seriously trained and intelligent, agile ect.

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>>723174762
Tfw you really can train a squirrel army if you're willing to personally train 100+ squirrels from birth

>>723181073
But you can't use them to beat galactus.

>>723174032
Because I am batman. I just need money first so any help is appreciated

probably because retarded power fantasies are an impotent poorfag thing

>>723174032
Barron Trump will become batman

>>723180454
oligarchs just stockpile their money in real estate and precious metals then play golf in dubai most of the time. yer making it sound like theyre living on the edge here

>>723181577
>has autism
>spoiled rich kid
>hates poor people
sounds about right

>>723181723
>has autism
No.
>Spoiled rich kid
Not really.
>Hates poor people
No.

0.5/3

Good try.

>>723179962
fuck off retard .

>>723174609
Still, imagining.

>>723181846
Best be talking about Batman

>>723181846
>whiteknighting barron fucking trump on /b/

the world has truly gone to shit

>>723182193
Yup. I know pretty much nothing about Baron.

>>723182221
No, see >>723182250

>>723182276
oh okay

>>723174867
Lends predatorily to the poor, causes much homelessness and tragedy

Buffet is evil

>>723177877
Amen. I always think of what Jesus said about the rich. Then I laugh at that heretic, Jim Ramsey, and his god-awful Christian money-making ministry.

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>>723174032
I am Batman.

>>723180005
Dear God, Elon Musk is paid in stolen money for everything he does. The car industry has to pay him to give away his Tesla's before they are allowed to sell gasoline cars.

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>>723183233
No. I am Batman.

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>>723183346
I am Batman

>>723183261
>all internet technology he profited from: given by the government
>all space technology he profits from: given by the government
>his car manufacturing business: survives solely due to welfare by USA + Chinese government

he's just a welfare queen

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>>723183419
I am Batman.

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>>723183549
...and I am Robin.

>>723178907
"good person" Look at her tweets

>>723178423
Genuine lol

>be bruce wayne
>attractive, genetically perfect, extremely intelligent, rich as all hell

>spends his time autistically contesting mentally ill freaks because he's still butthurt about his parents after decades

>>723175203
This

>>723180454
>Lol at taking FDIC $250k 'insurance' seriously