Roll back to 2013-2015. If he would have maintained this period’s façade, he’d be rich, influential and perhaps, a positive legacy. But he had to join the ultra wealthy club and in turn, push their agenda/interests and watch the momentum he had from those few years, crumble. He’s a meme more than ever and he doesn’t care. He had a chance to do better things, but joined the wrong cult…
And the sad part is that he’s still awfully rich and none of this matters. His worst days are still better than the best days of most of the rest of us.
Will all due respect to your cat (please pet it for me), I’d definitely choose lack of the existential dread over my future financial situation over a pet.
IIRC the pedo submarine incident happened around 2012 or 2013. That was really the first major indication that something wasn’t matching up with his Tony Stark PR image.
I know it feels like an eternity ago, but that whole incident happened in 2018.
It was 2018
I see now another commenter already mentioned this, but I’ll keep my comment up for the link.