Stark's Solution

Stark looked at the old woman in the photograph, her hair completely white and her face caked with grime, and found it hard to believe she was thirty.

Daisy continued, "She's a Mutant. Her ability makes people around her overlook her, but it doesn't go as far as invisibility. Government aid overlooked her. Church aid overlooked her. Even the X-Men never helped her. It was only S.H.I.E.L.D.'s comprehensive search that found her."

"She has numerous illnesses. It's summer now, but if she doesn't receive help, she might not survive this winter."

Daisy looked Stark in the eye. "No matter how good your clean energy is, she can't benefit from it, because she has no income at all. She's just an unnoticed homeless person. If we carefully draft a plan and analyze and weigh every clause, she might already have died silently in some sewer by the time the aid is implemented."

"I don't agree with many of Steve's views, but there's one thing I think he got right: help whoever you see, one at a time. Saving someone sooner is definitely better than saving them later."

Daisy gave Stark many more examples. Some Mutants were coerced by gangs into using their powers to steal money at enormous risk. Some had abilities that could give people immense "pleasure," so they became streetwalkers. Many Mutants who had not even finished middle school ended up on the streets, with no life skills and no means of making a living. Some had powers so useless that even homeless people bullied them. That was the reality of survival for lower-class Mutants.

"Tony, your sights are set too high. You only see powerhouses like Odin and Professor Xavier. That five-hundred-thousand-dollar interest-free loan program you recently launched is decent enough, but its beneficiaries are Massachusetts Institute of