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> And no, you can't just become one of the special superheroes. Two of the most iconic superheroes, Batman and Iron Man, are normal human beings who became sup
by philwelch 3y ago
> And no, you can't just become one of the special superheroes.
Two of the most iconic superheroes, Batman and Iron Man, are normal human beings who became superheroes from hard work.
- jborean93 3y agoLuckily they both didn't have rich parents in charge of large companies. Not saying they didn't work hard but they certainly had help financially that unfortunately normal people probably don't have.
- actionfromafar 3y agoAnd with Batman, a healthy chunk of inheritance.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoIron man too
- perardi 3y ago“Normal” human beings, as in, the rich scions of super-genius hyper-capitalists who have a functionally unlimited amount of inherited capital to fall back on as they create their own super-hero enterprises.
- anon25783 3y agoThey're billionaires. No one worth billions of dollars is "normal". Fewer than three thousand people alive are billionaires.
- philwelch 3y agoAnd zero people alive can fly or shoot heat rays out of their eyeballs, so it should have been obvious what I meant in context.
- raincole 3y agoBut the whole US ideology is about anyone can be a rich. Of course in real world it's not true, but it's a direct contradiction against the GP's weird "western ideaology = you can't just become one of the special superheroes" conspiracy.