General Zod wrote:I remember Peter Parker laid down a large chunk of money (for him) to help fund a memorial library in one issue even when he could have used the money himself. . .but yeah. Those examples are few and far between.
It's not merely the process of donating money, but it's processes of setting up a foundation. While few other supers have the monetary means to set up such a thing, many of them have
other means of doing actual tangible good in third world shitholes. You know all those corrupt warlords making life hell, starving people to death? People like Captain America can actually stop that, even if his personal reserve of monetary funds aren't very high.
Unless you'd like to argue that Bill Gates is our nation's greatest hero.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has poured billions of dollars into AIDS and disease preventation in third-world countries, including spreading knowledge of birth control across Africa. The funds it donates to fight against infectious diseases yearly nearly matches the World Health Organisation (192 different nations) and is comparable to the US Agency for International Development, and currently provides 17% of the entire planet's budget itno eradicating polio. It has put money towards the Grameen Foundation, enough that it plans to shift 2.5 million families above the poverty line in the US within the next five years, with aid for an additional 2.5 million.
So yeah, philantrophy does count, and it counts for a
lot.
