On the philosophical level, you have to ask a few questions, such as:
- "How much money does one person need to have?"
- "At what point does simple human acquisitiveness become a 'control issues' kind of mental disease?"
- "And when are we going to stop lionizing the diseased?"
Societally, we look on comic-book mavens as somehow immature. But as farcical as spandex-clad heroes battling luridly-looking villains seems--particularly given that most of these characters don't have any visible means of support--perhaps the mavens have better instincts after all. A simple skimming of the tabloid headlines reveals a set of priorities that are pretty messed up.