r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 21h ago

Robert Downey Jr, visiting Wall Street back in 1992 and being horrified after only staying there for 5 minutes

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u/phlavius_phogbottom 20h ago

To be fair he only had a few million in 1992.

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u/International-Ant174 19h ago

And most of that evaporated soon after as RDJ slid into substance abuse.

May have been "in that crowd" in '92, but was still functional. He went off the deep end a couple years after this and his life went pear-shaped for a few years.

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u/returnFutureVoid 19h ago

I was going to say that he may have been high af in that building. His observation is still valid and totally on point but there may be an asterisk as well.

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u/kurburux 12h ago

he may have been high af in that building

An ingenious move to blend in undetected!

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 9h ago

He has more on his own then everyone in that room combined

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u/cashmoney109 17h ago

He's still a nepo baby. He's never been broke in his life. Caping for millionaires is such bizarre behavior.

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u/trixtah 16h ago

Why does this negate the truth of his statement?

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u/KitnBlit 15h ago

So at the time he was only a "wannabe" rich a-hole?

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u/WingerRules 6h ago

He used to work in the tobacco industry. Not anything high level, he worked producing tobacco crops. Still though.... tobacco farming aint exactly a noble practice.