escapade in outer space

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid,...

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dash out 飛び出すルパン三世

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Reblogging again cause reminder

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Let’s talk about the rich superhero trope for a second. So you’ve got characters like Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark, Oliver Queen, Danny Rand, right? And when they were first conceptualized, they were millionaires, or multimillionaires. And as they’ve changed over the years, their fortunes have increased. It makes sense; you still want them to have that impossibly wealthy vibe, so you scale them up – millionaires become billionaires. ….. Except. When you scale them up to billionaires, it becomes a lot harder to think of them as ‘good guys.’ Because you see, a million dollars in 1930 is about the the same as 15 million dollars today. A million dollars in 1960 is about the same as 8 million dollars today. And that’s a lot of money, sure. But it isn’t *world changing* money. Fifteen million dollars is not enough to cover the costs of a University Library at a mid-sized institution. So even if youn have a few hundred million dollars, you could blow through it pretty quick just by funding higher education across the country. You can sort of accept that buying high tech goods to fight superpowered crime one on one is not an unreasonable thing for someone to do. But a billion dollars? A billion dollars is ONE THOUSAND MILLION dollars. And the richest men today have hundreds of billions of dollars. Hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars. And it’s obvious that that’s the sort of wealth we’re supposed to accept that Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne have today. But the thing is, that kind of wealth IS world-changing wealth. That is more than the GDP of almost every country in Africa, of almost every country in the Middle East, of a lot of countries in Southern Asia. That is a grotesque, inhuman amount of wealth. That is wealth that you could siphon off to save the world (and no, I don’t mean just by owning a company that sometimes builds clean tech.) So we’re supposed to just accept that Gotham City is this place that, in recent incarnations, seems to have unbelievable wealth and social inequities, that seem to cause super villains to pop up like daisies. And why? Why is it like that when Bruce Wayne, on his own, could fund a self-sustaining universal basic income program for the whole city and barely dint his pocket change? When he could promote increased taxes for the super wealthy so cities and counties could maintain their infrastructure? When he could single-handedly begin a green energy revolution that ensures it’s easier and cheaper for people and companies to be environmentally friendly than not? My point is that scaling up the wealth of superheroes to what is the norm for ‘super rich’ now undermines the concept of the rich superhero. Because almost by definition, the people with that much goddamn money in our world ONLY GOT that much money by being *super villains.*

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