do you think Bruce should be able to relate with lower class people? is that OOC?
I don’t think he’d relate to their struggles pertaining to being lower class or people that live in poverty at all. He is rich and always had the financial resources available to him when he needed them, whereas those people may not have ever had that. Even after Selina drained his accounts and Joker took his billions, he still had a decent amount of money and resources and lived in the nice side of town.
But in terms of loss and being a victim of a violent crime, yes. We see time and time again that he relates and is heartbroken about loss, especially when it happens because of a murder. It’s why he took Dick in. Dick needed someone to relate to the pain of losing both parents at the hand of a criminal.
He knows he can’t personally relate to someone who struggles with money, but he uses his money to help those to the best of his abilities as Bruce Wayne. He (and his children) have even gone as far as to offer jobs within the Wayne Company to those who are impoverished and in need of help, multiple times.
So, no, he can’t relate to their direct struggle of being lower class, not having money, out of a job, in crippling debt. But he can relate to many other aspects of their lives and he often times strives to bring those people hope and safety so that they don’t turn to a life of crime out of desperation or fear.
* I do believe It’s also important to note that some of the “higher up” workers of big name villains like Penguin or Joker are not broke. Batman’s rogues themselves are often not impoverished, poor, or lacking “higher” education. And if they were at one point in the beginning of their journey, they most likely aren’t anymore at their current state. I say this because people love to claim that Batman beats up mentally ill poor people and then cite his rogues gallery as evidence for the claim lol.
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