3. TIL that Bill Gates' net worth is still 10x as much as Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne...

TIL that Bill Gates' net worth is still 10x as much as Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne's estimated net worth is in the comics..

Maybe I should have specified "improving the quality of life for humanity". I wasn't aware the fandom here would be so high on a nonsensical stat. If you want to have a serious look at it, you have two largely weapons manufacturing conglomerates, albeit one has a soup kitchen in the Narrows, vs a humanitarian organization working to eradicate disease and extreme poverty, with the organization's roots derived from a company that helped bring the power of the computer to the masses. If you want to pretend that all three are in the current world/timeline, the technology of Gates helped power Wayne & Stark. So, yeah, I stand by my statement.

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