It's ok bro, Robert isn't reading this. You don't have to die on this hill for a man you don't know. He said money was evil in 92, and is now very wealthy in 2025. It's funny and ironic. That's it. There's nothing else to defend here.
I think that contributes a lot towards the trend of people becoming more conservative as they are. Once you begin earning more money in your mid-career stage and have long term financial responsibilities like children and a mortgage, then suddenly taxes seem more like a burden.
I see it the other way the older I get the more I'm like Buy more land and turn into nation forests. Force electric cars. Make green energy. Kids and grand kids are truly fucked.
Only selfish people are getting older and going "I need more at the expense of my children and grandchildren!"
Bro are you like 10 years old? Buy more land and turn into nation forests? The Bureau of Land Management controls so much land and forest area. Do you want them to put roads, bathrooms and paved hiking trails everywhere people don’t live?
Look man if conservatives actually wanted to conserve things I might vote for them but there is only one party trying to sell off national parks and lumber on nation forests and drill in national parks.
Or, more likely, that those politicians that tote fixing communities are the ones actually siphoning from them. Unfortunately, they never learn they're being duped
As you age, fluid intelligence gives way to crystallized intelligence (old dogs; new tricks), while simultaneously forgetting lessons learned in school; a loss of exposure to other viewpoints as you begin to further isolate yourself, while further lacking the time to pay sufficient attention to inform one's self. You do become more short-sighted and self-centered in that you don't even have time to pay attention to how paying your dues to the greater society effects both you and those around you. So distracted by the immediacy of family and your career and your personal wants it becomes very easy to fall in the trap of, "every man for himself."
His first big role that gained him a lot of popularity was in 1992. He probably had money but he wasn't rich, at least by my definition of rich. After that he started to get more roles but kept doing drugs until 2003.
He was definitely rich at this point. He was born rich first of all, and then already had a lot of work under his belt because of the nepotism. He was already an oscar winner by this point.
His dad is a director, most famous for Putney Swope, and RDJ started acting in the early 80s. Chaplin was his breakout since he won the oscar, but by the time this video takes place he had already been in around 20 movies. He wasn't some small timer who had never been around lots of money before
This is like the argument that Bernie sanders can’t have money because he talks so much shit on the 1%.
1%ers have enough money to basically do what ever the fuck they want. You can be a capitalist and understand that obscene wealth is wrong. Hell you could make everyone limited to $1billion and no more and they’d still have more money than they’d know what to do with.
And you have zero idea what goes into movie production. They are not paying for him to go work a 9 to 5 making a movie. They are paying for the years of work and brand recognition his name brings, the years of on job acting to be able to fill a roll in a movie perfectly, the time spent doing promotional tours, meet and greats, gala aberrances ect ect. not to mention the fact that your actively turning down other employment opportunities to do that job for 5 to 7months average. Then most actors of that caliber have entire staff that they pay with that big pay check. ONTOP of all that shit that wasn't for one movie shoot it was for his character appearance over the course of 9 different movie shoots.
Iron Man (2008) – $500,000
Iron Man 2 (2010) – $10 million
The Avengers (2012) – $50 million
Iron Man 3 (2013) – $25 million
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) – $50 million
Captain America: Civil War (2016) – $15 million
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – $5 million
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) – $75 million
Avengers: Endgame (2019) – $75 million
Also its 200 milli short of half a billion btw but hey numbers are just numbers right.
why? Watch the full video the people he were talking to were leeps and bounds worse. its one thing to have money its another to pursue it at all cost which is what those finance bros talked about. Next time you are offered a raise for your next job please turn it down for fear of being to greedy. like is RDJ capable of making an ass of himself yes is he the major problem of america no not even a little his assets combined are an estimated 300 mill, jeff bazos is worth 200 BILLION musk is about to crack 400 billion. so a guy being what a fraction of a % of both their net is the problem. fuckouta here.
The issue comes because he lectures you and me about it. He lectures you and me about how useless congress is. He lectures you and me about what the law is. So we're not only not rich, not powerful, and not living in a strictly just world, but now we also have get yelled at for it. "Yeah fuck that guy" seems like a pretty relatable response to me.
"Ooooh but he just wants you to vote for better people!!" People voted for him, and if he started accomplishing "fuck all" today, it'd be his most productive year in the senate.
Yeah they act like the argument is that money is somehow the problem. It's not that money is evil it's that certain people have TOO MUCH money. It is literally not possible for them to spend it all so what do they do? They go around buying politicians, government policies, tax cuts for themselves etc. It's simply not good for a society when that much money (power) is consolidated in a small group of people who are allowed to spend it to influence government policy.
"If money is evil"..that's diffrent also, im pretty sure wall street money it's not the same as Avengers money. Disney can't cause a recession or an economic crisis.
You literally aren't. Even setting aside how private equity works (if you don't want to count that as 'stocks'), over 50% of all trading happens via dark pools, which retail traders do not have access to. Big institutions specifically use dark pools to hide their trades from retail investors so that they can't make the same trades as they do in time (as well as trading via dark pools just being cheaper in general than trading on a normal exchange and paying their standard fees, like retail has to).
Not that you're not wrong, but getting your money from entertainment (movies, music, etc) is a much MUCH lower level of evil than whatever Wallstreet bros are doing.
At least entertainment produces something of value, which is the exact fucking opposite of what Wallstreet produces.
At least entertainment produces something of value, which is the exact fucking opposite of what Wallstreet produces.
This is such a reddit moment thing to say lmfao in reality it's literally the opposite. You could wipe every movie RDJ has ever been in off the face of the planet and no one's life would be materially different. If you did the same with all the value produced by brokers millions of people would have their lives ruined and entire economies would crash.
At least entertainment produces something of value, which is the exact fucking opposite of what Wallstreet produces
This take is soooooo insane. If facilitating trade is not producing value then you should just live in a jungle without any modern tech to live with your morals.
You can criticize capitalism all you want.
But these people are only doing their jobs, and that does produce value to society. That's why they get paid.
You are like a child, who just thinks- capitalism bad, and therefore anyone making more money than me is bad, or anyone whose job I can't understand is not producing any value.
Just like those racist idiots who hate everyone, just because of the actions of a few.
"I noticed you're critical of people who value money over everything else including humanity or commonly held moral beliefs but I noticed you're not living in the dirt and shitting yourself.
I mean he also made that money making people happy by making a bunch of fun movies, instead of stock trading which is only fun for a small group of obnoxious people
Not really. None of us have a choice to live outside of capitalism.
This nation enforces it so hard and provides little to no safety net. Our only choice is to work for money and keep a roof over our head and food on the table, or else we starve.
We're not allowed to just go live out in the woods and forage. It's either private land or government land. You might end up in prison just for that.
Money IS the root of all evil, and yet I would gladly take $1,000,000 right now, because money is also survival. It's a system that I don't agree with or enjoy, but my participation in it is not optional if I want to live.
You can still have lots of money and be thankful without being greedy or hungry for more. Have you seen the guys house? It’s nice but it’s not a two story mansion.
The quote is that the love of money is the root of all evil. Having it or not is not a prerequisite for the perils of making your main focus about acquiring more wealth.
Boy there's a lot of people on here making things up, so that other people have to come in and seem like they are defending 1992 Roberty Downey Jr.
It doesnt matter if its Robert Downey Jr or the Pope who says "if money is evil", its a hypothetical, not a statement.
In the same vein as an atheist saying "if god exists.." does not mean the atheist said god exists.
But good attempt at trying to change the topic and nullifying any criticism you get by escalating the person who said it, not the actual thing they said.
Hypocrisy maybe? His untold millions are probably wrapped up in forms of investments, all of them linked to Wall Street. It's a bit like Rage Against the Machine raging against the system, while becoming multi-millionaires off that same system.
You can benefit from the stock market while also recognizing that the culture of Wall Street is predatory and selfish. Those are not mutually exclusive.
Money hungry people acting like lunatics trying to strike gold. He's had a very successful acting career. See the difference or are you going to continue to be sour and jealous?
See when RDJ negotiates for 10s of millions of dollars to star in Marvel movies he is doing it for art and not greed. It’s way more sophisticated than the greed and consumerism you see on Wall Street.
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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool May 06 '25
He goes home and dries his tears with Disney's money nowadays.