#1 and #3 seem overly optimistic about the ability of sheer cash to enact positive social change.
The best way to improve Gotham would be to leave. It's a rotten society. Gothamites would do better to, individually, move away from the city and start elsewhere where the social and political environment is less toxic. Bruce Wayne could set a personal example.
The genre of alternate history has also greatly benefited from the development of cheap self-publishing. Most of it us complete junk. But there are real gems hidden in the bowels of the Amazon Kindle Store that would otherwise never have been published.
The car owner knew exactly what he was doing.
Please don't crush our dreams so casually. I want to believe.
Let's do it again!
All we need is for someone to Photoshop a cowboy hat on that frog.
The best way to improve Gotham would be to leave. It's a rotten society. Gothamites would do better to, individually, move away from the city and start elsewhere where the social and political environment is less toxic. Bruce Wayne could set a personal example.