For multi-millionaire celebs, publicly blasting billionaires is their new virtue signal.

Last week Andrew Garfield went even further, saying he hoped his new movie, “The Uprising” about England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, instilled fear into the uber wealthy.

Promoting the flick at an Los Angeles screening, Garfield was asked what he wanted moviegoers to take away from it and the 43-year-old said he wants it to be “galvanizing. I hope there’s some awakening that people feel … that we all feel like our own struggles are being reflected in the struggles of these characters from a distant time and place.”

“And I hope that if any billionaires watch it, they’re scared s—tless,” he said.

Scared of what? Maybe he’d like to explain in detail to the billionaires who have funded his work over the years, allowing him to become wealthy himself.

Is he rooting for some sort of violence targeting elites? And if so, where does he think he falls in this hierarchy-of-haves?

Does he think when the uprising happens, the angry masses will skip him because he’s one of the “good” rich people? He said the right thing.

Garfield is just another spoiled celebrity like Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo and Lewis Hamilton, doing the obligatory, anti-billionaires land acknowledgement.

But it’s quite rich considering these people are essentially screaming at the largest private jet on the runway from the cabin of their smaller private jet.

Railing against billionaires has become the progressive thing to do. The practice is popular among the DSA cool kids, who believe anyone with money should be taxed into oblivion so they can fund their pet socialist projects.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said billionaires shouldn’t exist and during a 2023 interview with podcaster Jay Shetty, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton expressed a similar sentiment.

“You shouldn’t be able to have billions,” he said. “I think there should be a limit to how much you can have because there’s enough to go around for everyone.”

One can assume Hamilton, who dates billionaire Kim Kardashian, gave her a good talking to when they started hanging out. He must have shamed her for having so much moolah and eschewed any of the luxuries all those zeroes she provided.

Surely.

Not that he’s skint. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, the Englishman is reportedly worth more than $550 million himself. Since 2010 he has officially lived in Monaco, which protects his riches from all the taxation that happens in his homeland.

His livelihood is dependent on individuals and companies with the deepest pockets.

Then, of course, there is Eilish, who is currently selling her own vegan fragrance for $88. At an awards event in 2025, she shook her finger at the people with the “b word” attached.

“Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties,” she said.

Rich ladies first. We insist.

Conveniently left out of the conversation is how many billionaires like Ken Langone and Ken Griffin generously fund hospitals, museums and other programs that enrich our culture. They are also massive employers, allowing countless families to generate their own wealth.

Much maligned Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip is literally giving life back to people with spinal chord injuries and other neurological diseases, enabling them to operate computers using their minds alone.

That kind of work is a far greater contribution than putting out a catchy tune, a movie or a namesake perfume. But it’s much easier to shout slogans like “tax the rich” and root for the demise of billionaires than it is to have an honest conversation about what many, not all, billionaires provide for our society.

The folks who villainize the rich currently have their target on the mega mega money guys. But once they’re done with that class, the mob will move onto the multi-millionaires with status and influence.

Expressing solidarity with the cause won’t inoculate Garfield from being the next meal consumed by the “eat the rich” crowd.