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[Batman] Does Wayne Enterprises even "feel" the cost of Bruce funding Batman?
gpt
Yes, in the sense that the CEO is effectively embezzling millions of dollars every year. But he's not always just getting custom stuff built only for himself.

See a lot of the technology that gets funneled to Batman's purposes is just overbuilt of weapons and equipment that Wayne Enterprises makes available to its customers.

For example, WE mocks up a prototype of what sort of thing could be done if money was no object. They put all of the bells and whistles on it, and include every possible option. 

Then their customers say "That's great, but we're trying to order 20,000 vehicles for the military and we can't spend that much per unit. Cut the price in half."

So WE strips out some of the stuff, redesigns things to make it cheaper to produce, and so on. That way they can hit the price point that they need to get under.

But the prototype doesn't just go into storage, and doesn't get used as an example for the production department, and it doesn't go on tour as an example for other customers, and doesn't get stripped and re-used.

Instead it gets a fancy paint job, they put some fins and shit on it, and Batman takes it for himself.

Don't get me wrong, some of it is built expressly for Batman's use. But he's rarely going beyond "state of the art" ... he's using components that are already built, even if they're not being made available yet.