Extend this to climate change:

Bob is responsible for .00000015% of emissions.

Shell is responsible for 5%.

But 95% of marketing for a more climate-friendly lifestyles is aimed at Bob.

Or to put it another way, Bob will emit roughly 15 metric tons of CO2 in his lifetime.

Shell emitted roughly 50 million tons in 2023 alone.

But let’s tel Bob he needs to change his lifestyle.

Right, but Shell spends that money and that stimulates the economy.

Bob sticks those food stamps in his investment account and sits on them until one of his execs gets caught doing something highly illegal and needs a $100mil early retirement package.

Selfish Bob.

Edit: /s in case it’s not obvious that I swapped the names “Bob” and “Shell”

some notes, the 2Bil may be misinformation, but I will instead ignore that and just use the subsidies to the oil industry.

We could give every single human living in the US (even babies) that $1500 and it would be 130b cheaper than oil subsidies according to forbes.

We could give every household in the US (127,482,865 according to US census) $5,100 for what we spend on oil subsidies yearly.

Please note those numbers are from 2015 so its likely much higher now, but a quick google didn't give me exact numbers for the US and I'm too lazy to go into that. (it would likely be closer to $7000 per household)

What About Bob? is a great movie BTW.

Also, Bob can’t use the restroom at Shell.

Goober Nation has no problems with "socialism" when those government handouts benefit a billionaire.

Maybe when 80% of this nation is living in Trumpville tent cities, people will finally stop voting for, "Punch me in the dick repeatedly."

It would take 1.33 million bobs to equal the same cost that shell takes in. Each bob has a family of roughly 4 including bob, feeding 5.33 million people. The kids in the family are able to pay attention in school bc they are well fed and bob is able to hunt for a better job since he doesn't have two jobs to make sure his family doesn't starve.

Shell is definitely worth the expense, plus Exxon, and even non oil companies like spaceX/Tesla subsidies that are rarely generating value for the taxpayers who funded it.

But... but... Bob might use some of that money to buy cigarettes!

This is misinformation

But how many millions of people and countless ecosystems does Bob kill?!??

Shell is a British company, isn’t it? The British government subsidies them?

Guess which one Elon's "Department" of Government Efficiency wants to cut!

but they could pay thier workers and stimulate the economy, I mean that's why they get the money, it's called trickle down economics.

Do they do that, no.

Does it work...no.

(Sarcasm)

It went from bribery to "trickle down economics" and now I think they call it the cost of keeping business.