the company I work at just cut 4% of its work force to make its new ceo look better, I mean, because "churn outpaced growth" though we're still going to hear how we're making record profits this year, just not as much as they thought we were going to make, just like every year, because stupid people think exponential growth is a thing. so yeah, fuck rich people, fuck capitalists, fuck regressives.
I just never liked this guy because of his acting, and the movies he's in, but I like what he's standing up for. So yeah, the stuff that matters, matters. Encourage people to do good and I'll support you
Remember kids if you're poor and talk about billionaires then you're jealous. If you're rich and talk about billionaires then you are a hypocrite. Overall just dont anyone talk about wealth inequality. /s
Awesome guy. Famous people promoting protests is so important nowadays. I hate when there was a protest, and the reason I didnt participate was that I didnt know.
I just did a little reading up on his background and his history in showbiz. There was so, so much more than I knew! This guy’s body of stellar work really gets overshadowed by Avengers.
I use the road to get to work. Big businesses use the roads so ALL their employees can get to work. I use the roads to order some stuff. Big businesses use the roads to ship ALL their stuff, and to order all the stuff they need to make their stuff.
Big businesses and the rich SHOULD pay more, they USE more.
I'm sorry why the fuck not tax MILLIONAIRES too? Why stop at Billionaires. Is $35M not enough?? that kind of money is bonkers and then to be lectured from a multi millionaire about rich people (but like BILLIONAIRE RICH PEOPLE) aren't getting taxed enough
https://sociallifemagazine.com/hamptons-celebrities/mark-ruffalo-net-worth-2025/
A message worth getting behind. Seriously, set an example for other cities, towns and population centres to follow and there just might be a financial turn around.
His net worth is 35 million which is nothing to sneeze at... But pushing 60 for a very famous person? Honestly I am not that mad at it especially since he is pushing taxes that will 100% affect him. He knows he will be fine let alone the people pulling down 100s of million a year.
I had a very dedicated employee who was a single mother. The job was civil service and maxed out at $15.75/hour. She had to pay $275.00/week for daycare. $630 before taxes. Maybe $480/week take home. That is a net of $205/week. Don't know about you but paying rent and groceries on $205/week is pretty danm tight. Even at $200/month for groceries that leaves $722 for rent. Better live with your folks is you want to afford a car and gas.
I saw a thing saying they were gonna show the green monster in the next movie. Cause you know he gets all big but the magic pants stay on. And I guess they either won't this time or someone is tapping the hulk. If it wasn't a joke post that is.
Maga, Republicans, and people who are beyond stupid who are brainwashed and have no idea how the economy works or how they're doormats for billionaires
Edit: Oh wait my bad, my keyboard glitched and wrote the same thing three times my bad
I think, counter to the teary-eyed MAGA belief, that a public figure like this SHOULD be using their reach to educate the public. The whole reason we're in this mess is because a huge swath of Americans get their "news" from entertainers (I'm calling Fox News entertainment, because it isn't news) and are more likely to listen to The Hulk than an actual economist or scientist to explain their world to them.
Seriously. Every other major public figure is refusing to speak up and threaten their career and then we got Mr. Ruffalo and Macklemore here showing untold levels of solidarity in the modern age by doing exactly what everyone else is too cowardly to do.
Taxing billionaires is a lot more significant than taxing millionaires but sure, you think he's not willing to stand by hus own principles, the guy who's been publicly supportive of Palestine?
Dunno what his normal spending is like, but $35M less 50% (MASSIVE amount of "fair" taxes) still leaves him with close to $20M. What kind of place would he live in that would have kind of upkeep? What's his phone and internet costs like?
Honestly, my take is tax everyone the "normal" fair amount up to about $200M wealth, and then tax the remaining above that at 100%. Nobody needs that kind of money.
The point is - i hope - clear that when you GET to this point, when you become rich, then it becomes your job to start working for people less well off than you, because you can afford it, and you can put pressure where other people can't. People say he's going to end up blacklisted and never work again, maybe.. but he can afford it. Just like Ed Sheeran, he had a choice between two things and he chose the right one
This was also my response. Although to be fair I have no idea how accurate these kind of things are and how it is calculated. And while it he is active in charity, founded two of them, there are no public records of how much he has actually donated. Not ones I could fine at least.
The fact remains however that he himself is a part of the top 1% wealthiest Americans and lives in multi-million dollar homes. Which makes the message fall a bit flat.
Its the opposite. He's showing that once people get rich, its their duty to stand up for people in lesser positions, because he can afford it. Its like bernie, bernie is rich, but he talks about higher taxes. He wants more taxes for rich people, rich people like him. How is he not the perfect person for this message?
How does that make it fall flat? He isn't rich because of tax loopholes and shit. He's rich because he's an a-list movie star. Having wealth and privilege doesn't invalidate his calls for taxing the ultra wealthy to benefit working people. He's doing exactly what we want privileged people with a platform to do, by advocating for folks who need support.
Exactly! With his status he could petit for billion wealth and there would be realistic chances to succeed. It is extremely important that he is keeping this sentiment.
It is, but numbers work like that. The difference between a million and a billion is a billion. Because a billion is a THOUSAND million, which is hard to comprehend because ordinary people don't think in terms of numbers that large. Here's an example: a million seconds is about 4 months. A *billion* seconds is closer to 34 *YEARS*.
I tried explaining to someone the other day how ol Musky has a million millions and how that’s essentially biologically incomprehensible to us. Wild shit.
100% agree with you about the numbers. They get too big, and too ridiculous. I get it. I've been a physics teacher for 30 years, and when I see some of the numbers I have to teach, I get a little overwhelmed. 10^-34 doesn't make much sense, and it never will. But it's the standard distance in particle physics, and that means something
graceinsheepsclothing
Mark Ruffalo net worth $35 million
Renza0
the company I work at just cut 4% of its work force to make its new ceo look better, I mean, because "churn outpaced growth" though we're still going to hear how we're making record profits this year, just not as much as they thought we were going to make, just like every year, because stupid people think exponential growth is a thing. so yeah, fuck rich people, fuck capitalists, fuck regressives.
jwillywill
PrettyPrettyPrettyPrettyGood
Don't make him angry...
Sneertm
Suddenly he looks very old like 70+. That doesn't change the fact that is time to smash billionaires with tax.
KerryCoder
This guy looks like Mark Ruffalo.
bripi
Because unions were completely destroyed. Without a collective bargaining power, workers are just furniture.
FoxPeregrine
I just never liked this guy because of his acting, and the movies he's in, but I like what he's standing up for. So yeah, the stuff that matters, matters. Encourage people to do good and I'll support you
FrankensteinUnleashed
A Credible Hulk
SuspiciousCactus
Remember kids if you're poor and talk about billionaires then you're jealous. If you're rich and talk about billionaires then you are a hypocrite. Overall just dont anyone talk about wealth inequality. /s
magila
I support what he is saying here, but I was shocked by what he did to Scarlett Johannsen. It's known as the GIF.
rezpawner
She was into it though.
Poppypoppoppop
That governor knows what it's like to struggle financially. She better stands with her working class constituents.
YippeeKayakOB
Awesome guy. Famous people promoting protests is so important nowadays. I hate when there was a protest, and the reason I didnt participate was that I didnt know.
forwardobserver
Mark Ruffalo is worth $35 million. He's just like you.
TheMentallyillist
I just did a little reading up on his background and his history in showbiz. There was so, so much more than I knew! This guy’s body of stellar work really gets overshadowed by Avengers.
Monster0Grendel
I follow HULK. HULK SMASH!
gnomedeplume
Evenmoreuselessname
Lol is that the original text??
Scuzzlebutt142
That is the original text, gotta love when villains know when they’re screwed and make the sensible decision.
BeaverOnFire
myhumblecontribution
If the Hulk askes you to tax the rich, you Tax the Rich!
TonyDiethelm
I use the road to get to work. Big businesses use the roads so ALL their employees can get to work. I use the roads to order some stuff. Big businesses use the roads to ship ALL their stuff, and to order all the stuff they need to make their stuff.
Big businesses and the rich SHOULD pay more, they USE more.
svga
I'm sorry why the fuck not tax MILLIONAIRES too? Why stop at Billionaires. Is $35M not enough?? that kind of money is bonkers and then to be lectured from a multi millionaire about rich people (but like BILLIONAIRE RICH PEOPLE) aren't getting taxed enough
https://sociallifemagazine.com/hamptons-celebrities/mark-ruffalo-net-worth-2025/
SaturnineCult
Is there any public information how much he pays taxes? I'd think 35mil is not quite enough to get this automatic tax-exempt status there.
PikpikCeleriac
February 25th? Okay so why are you posting this now?
TLoATDaE
A message worth getting behind. Seriously, set an example for other cities, towns and population centres to follow and there just might be a financial turn around.
KarmaciouS
Don't forget that workers create wealth, and then we took it from them and say they can't have healthcare because we can't afford it
alcamar
"They can handle it, trust me"
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cGE4OXZoOThrM2NsajJjeXA1ODNvNG5xcHZ1aGF5aGFzcW1lZDVnNSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/l3q2LH45XElELRzRm/200w.webp
Raikupath
Florentin?
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
His net worth is 35 million which is nothing to sneeze at... But pushing 60 for a very famous person? Honestly I am not that mad at it especially since he is pushing taxes that will 100% affect him. He knows he will be fine let alone the people pulling down 100s of million a year.
Stumpkiller
I had a very dedicated employee who was a single mother. The job was civil service and maxed out at $15.75/hour. She had to pay $275.00/week for daycare. $630 before taxes. Maybe $480/week take home. That is a net of $205/week. Don't know about you but paying rent and groceries on $205/week is pretty danm tight. Even at $200/month for groceries that leaves $722 for rent. Better live with your folks is you want to afford a car and gas.
DoctorJAZoidberg
plus internet and phone, employers will expect you to have at least one of those
gobblinal
Did you do anything to help that situation?
Stumpkiller
Hired her and let here leave 1/2 hour early (paid) to pick up her kid from daycare.
gobblinal
Well that seems 100% reasonable.
SCP1504
Don’t make him angry… you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
jwillywill
7heng
you're thinking TheGif,gif
djhash
but he's always angry!
kahooki
Can't blame him.
tzahtman
Hey that was supposed to be a secret!
00Lochnessa
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aHZvZzJlM3hvdHY5djZoM25lbmdqMnBxMGJxMTFpd2I5aWZ6ODEwdyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/10H4by255F2UsU/200w.webp
iPez
the based hulk
davesaint01930
The credible hulk
Zixtank
The Credible Hulk
tp0d
u want a taco?
theduckening
Hulk smash billionaires
AreYouABadPerson
That comic panel where Hulk catches Bullseye in the midst of robbing a bank, drops him outside, and tells him to pay his taxes.
TELunus
Hulk tax billionaires in this case I think
theduckening
Hmm, can we have both?
NooPogodi
He's a very very rich man! He still says tax the rich.
resworn
I love him more and more these days.
YouRadicalizedMe
Me too. Also. Only 60 percent ? Fucking agree. What the fuck guys???
SJBSavageInk
I saw a thing saying they were gonna show the green monster in the next movie. Cause you know he gets all big but the magic pants stay on. And I guess they either won't this time or someone is tapping the hulk. If it wasn't a joke post that is.
SpamYarBlockers
Who are the 40 percent of New Yorkers who disagree?
TheHornyCactus
Maga, Republicans, and people who are beyond stupid who are brainwashed and have no idea how the economy works or how they're doormats for billionaires
Edit:
Oh wait my bad, my keyboard glitched and wrote the same thing three times my bad
buddhanature
I think, counter to the teary-eyed MAGA belief, that a public figure like this SHOULD be using their reach to educate the public. The whole reason we're in this mess is because a huge swath of Americans get their "news" from entertainers (I'm calling Fox News entertainment, because it isn't news) and are more likely to listen to The Hulk than an actual economist or scientist to explain their world to them.
resworn
I mean, the orange bastard is just a "celebrity figure" so why can't we have ours? Especially since he speaks eloquently.
HouseOfEvil
I award Mark Ruffalo, FIVE MARK RUFFALOOOS!
resworn
I LOVE ORDINARY SAUSAGE
Deadrac
Seems to be one of the few actually speaking uo about this shit
resworn
Yeah, he's a really good dude from what I've been gathering.
gnomedeplume
Gaza, lgbt and aids activism, he's all that and a side of fries
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Seriously. Every other major public figure is refusing to speak up and threaten their career and then we got Mr. Ruffalo and Macklemore here showing untold levels of solidarity in the modern age by doing exactly what everyone else is too cowardly to do.
JBloodthorn
Ms. Rachel also speaks out.
resworn
She's a great egg.
americangothicboi
Net worth $35 million according to Google. I hope he’s up for it!
gnomedeplume
Taxing billionaires is a lot more significant than taxing millionaires but sure, you think he's not willing to stand by hus own principles, the guy who's been publicly supportive of Palestine?
americangothicboi
Dude I bet he is. Never met him but he seems nice tbh.
gobblinal
Dunno what his normal spending is like, but $35M less 50% (MASSIVE amount of "fair" taxes) still leaves him with close to $20M. What kind of place would he live in that would have kind of upkeep? What's his phone and internet costs like?
Honestly, my take is tax everyone the "normal" fair amount up to about $200M wealth, and then tax the remaining above that at 100%. Nobody needs that kind of money.
AgamemnonsMemes
The point is - i hope - clear that when you GET to this point, when you become rich, then it becomes your job to start working for people less well off than you, because you can afford it, and you can put pressure where other people can't. People say he's going to end up blacklisted and never work again, maybe.. but he can afford it. Just like Ed Sheeran, he had a choice between two things and he chose the right one
Evenmoreuselessname
So not JUST LIKE Ed Sheeran 😛
Zarick
This was also my response. Although to be fair I have no idea how accurate these kind of things are and how it is calculated.
And while it he is active in charity, founded two of them, there are no public records of how much he has actually donated. Not ones I could fine at least.
The fact remains however that he himself is a part of the top 1% wealthiest Americans and lives in multi-million dollar homes. Which makes the message fall a bit flat.
AgamemnonsMemes
Its the opposite. He's showing that once people get rich, its their duty to stand up for people in lesser positions, because he can afford it. Its like bernie, bernie is rich, but he talks about higher taxes. He wants more taxes for rich people, rich people like him. How is he not the perfect person for this message?
Superchief86
How does that make it fall flat? He isn't rich because of tax loopholes and shit. He's rich because he's an a-list movie star. Having wealth and privilege doesn't invalidate his calls for taxing the ultra wealthy to benefit working people. He's doing exactly what we want privileged people with a platform to do, by advocating for folks who need support.
SergeyPrkl
Exactly! With his status he could petit for billion wealth and there would be realistic chances to succeed. It is extremely important that he is keeping this sentiment.
JBloodthorn
He is way closer to the same net worth of you and I than he is to a billionaire. Like, WAY closer.
americangothicboi
Isn’t that crazy???
bripi
It is, but numbers work like that. The difference between a million and a billion is a billion. Because a billion is a THOUSAND million, which is hard to comprehend because ordinary people don't think in terms of numbers that large. Here's an example: a million seconds is about 4 months. A *billion* seconds is closer to 34 *YEARS*.
americangothicboi
I tried explaining to someone the other day how ol Musky has a million millions and how that’s essentially biologically incomprehensible to us. Wild shit.
gobblinal
Let's be honest, there's a LOT of people out there for whom the concept of "3" is incomprehensible to them.
bripi
100% agree with you about the numbers. They get too big, and too ridiculous. I get it. I've been a physics teacher for 30 years, and when I see some of the numbers I have to teach, I get a little overwhelmed. 10^-34 doesn't make much sense, and it never will. But it's the standard distance in particle physics, and that means something