Yeah Batman, one of the most iconic DC superheroes who has bested your example of Superman is totally just inborn power with no training dedication or thoughtful application of skills. Yup.
I mean he was still born super rich, so fits OPs gripe.
But being born rich so you can dedicate your life to achieving something exceptional instead of struggling with necessity is the essence of "noblesse oblige". And it's still an important moral lesson to teach if you want to continue to encourage human excellence.
Realistically, even exceptional people still need to be freed from daily drudgery to achieve anywhere close to their full potential. And anywhere it's possible to accumulate personal wealth you will have kids born rich enough to do that.
It's best for everyone (even the rich kids) if they believe their most fulfilling goal in life is to achieve great innovation in a field, or that it's their moral responsibility to protect the less powerful from government corruption and criminal elements, rather than pursuing hedonism or filling their Scrouge McDuck moneyvault even higher.
He's not "just super rich" though. He is entirely the product of hard work and dedication to a goal. I'm actually struggling to think of a real "power of money" character. Even wealthy technologists in comics tend to be geniuses capable of and often being first generation gazillionaires. The Fantastic Four for instance were even in a place to receive their powers by being the cream of the crop and being chosen on merit to be deep-space explorers. If op got what he wanted he would just cry harder at half a century of even more extreme power creep in storytelling as the result of "training" and stake raising as the power scale only goes up.
Yeah Batman, one of the most iconic DC superheroes who has bested your example of Superman is totally just inborn power with no training dedication or thoughtful application of skills. Yup.
Come off it.
I mean he was still born super rich, so fits OPs gripe.
But being born rich so you can dedicate your life to achieving something exceptional instead of struggling with necessity is the essence of "noblesse oblige". And it's still an important moral lesson to teach if you want to continue to encourage human excellence.
Realistically, even exceptional people still need to be freed from daily drudgery to achieve anywhere close to their full potential. And anywhere it's possible to accumulate personal wealth you will have kids born rich enough to do that.
It's best for everyone (even the rich kids) if they believe their most fulfilling goal in life is to achieve great innovation in a field, or that it's their moral responsibility to protect the less powerful from government corruption and criminal elements, rather than pursuing hedonism or filling their Scrouge McDuck moneyvault even higher.
He's not "just super rich" though. He is entirely the product of hard work and dedication to a goal. I'm actually struggling to think of a real "power of money" character. Even wealthy technologists in comics tend to be geniuses capable of and often being first generation gazillionaires. The Fantastic Four for instance were even in a place to receive their powers by being the cream of the crop and being chosen on merit to be deep-space explorers. If op got what he wanted he would just cry harder at half a century of even more extreme power creep in storytelling as the result of "training" and stake raising as the power scale only goes up.
he's rich
Oh boy that orphan privilege.