+67 Robert Downey Jr is partly responsible for why so many tech bros and wannabe billionaires act like assholes today, amirite?

by lehnerherbert 1 day ago

This isn't unpopular, it's just wrong. You can't just make a supposition like this without any evidence. Tech bros and billionaires were acting like jerks long before 2008. If anything, if tech bros and billionaires acted even a little bit like Tony Stark, they would have done far more for humanity.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

It's also wrong for the character. OP hasn't even seen the movies. Stark realizes in the very first movie that being a tech bro douchebag was a waste of his life, and then dedicates his resources from then on to bettering mankind.

by Fluid-Bedroom-5872 1 day ago

When I think tech bro I think coding not so much engineering.

by Ernestineveum 1 day ago

Le rich people bad

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Those kinds of people were already there before his Iron Man performance. The only difference is that back then instead of YouTube and LinkedIn, you found them on TV and bookstore.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Dude, RDJ's character was INSPIRED by tech bros.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

This is an uninformed / ignorant take, not an unpopular opinion.

by kimberlyroob 1 day ago

This is so misplaced and half-baked it has no basis in reality

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Im 15 and this is deep

by Anonymous 1 day ago

But the job of an actor is to bring the vision of the writer and director to life, it's like me saying that the reason as to why racism is worse today is because the actor who played Harry Potter played a white supremacist so convincingly that the world just responded to that Also the wolf of wall Street exists

by RevolutionaryExit 1 day ago

Robert Downey Jr performance as Tony Stark and Tech bros cannot be further apart imo. There may have been like few handful in the entire MCU where Tony is actually doing software vs pure engineering. And of those scenes it was pure hologram AI nonesense not even traditional coding. There are even less scenes with him dealing with business.

by Ernestineveum 1 day ago

Not all tech people watch that crap.

by Anonymous 1 day ago