![]() ![]() Poverty and crime were inextricably intertwined, twisted and wound around each other in a sickening knot. The desperation of the lower classes only fuelled the rise of supervillains, and well, whole essays could and had been written on the topic. They were wrong of course, refusing to funnel their money back into the city kept it from developing, kept it mired in colossal crime rates, with the poor turning to crime and violence just to put food on the table or heat their homes during Gotham’s frigid winters. ![]() To them, it didn’t even compare keeping their grifted billions to themselves was light years away from doing something so undignified as physical violence. No, they soiled their hands with evasion and avoidance and fraud – hiding ill-gotten gains with a few gentle taps on a keyboard. They were well-bred, they didn’t dirty their hands with gunshot residue or allow blood spatters to stain their perfectly pressed suits. The members of Gotham’s high society liked to pretend they were above the lower echelons when it came to crime and corruption. ![]()
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