Hacker News Reader

Luckily 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.

They're billionaires. No one worth billions of dollars is "normal". Fewer than three thousand people alive are billionaires.

And zero people alive can fly or shoot heat rays out of their eyeballs, so it should have been obvious what I meant in context.

But 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.

And with Batman, a healthy chunk of inheritance.

Iron man too

“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.