Filippo Dell’Andrea

PhD student in Economics - The University of Melbourne - from Agordo to the rest of the world

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

Facts: I earn twice as much as a PhD in Milan and spend 1.2-1.3x

[Matteo Marinelli @MrnllMtt]

This is why Italy is being held back: boomers thinking that salaries abroad are indeed higher, but costs scale proportionally.

This couldn't be further from the truth.

In Amsterdam I was making €3,400 net per month: even after subtracting €1,500 for rent and about €250 for groceries, I still had more money left over each month than my peers here could hope to save in an entire quarter. In Milan I would have faced similar costs, but a salary (for the same job) that was half as much, if I was lucky.

Italy has seen virtually no wage growth, while the cost of living has increased significantly. These people simply don't see it because they don't have to pay rent and often live off pensions and subsidies.

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

@Roberto42842984 @yildizziano2 Del tipo leggi questo commento capisci che questi vivono nel paese dei balocchi https://t.co/cgfuMTry9G

[Giovine Italia @GiovineItalia1]

@FeeloPi @yildizziano2 Sì, ma con due condizioni:
1) se si socializzano le spese, si socializzano anche i profitti
2) l'AI non può essere usata per licenziare.

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

@Roberto42842984 @yildizziano2 Ma infatti son d’accordo con te, non capisco di cosa stiano dibattendo lol

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

@yildizziano2 Ma scusami, conoscendo le policies fino ad ora adottate della UE sei d’accordo o no con il claim? Ha buttato la quella frase perché aveva 1 minuto, poi non voglio fare il Boldrin boy, ma l’AI è arrivata qui con finanziamenti sia privati che pubblici. Altri commenti già lo dicono

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

Mio padre ha ricevuto una multa dall'agenzie dell'entrate dicendo che il postino è venuto con l'avviso due volte, ma l'avviso non è mai arrivato. Ovviamente come fai a dimostrare che non è arrivato? 800 euro di multa. Moduli che non si capisce una mazza e servizi inefficienti.

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

Of course Chinese people spend more money on food as they get richer. Food is already so good and so cheap, and as you get richer you can get the top of the top like this freshly killed on the day beef hotpot for like 30 bucks. Stuff that the Western mind cannot comprehend TMD

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

Bentornato Michele, e buona permanenza!!

[Michele Boldrin @micheleboldrin]

Perché in questo paese - dove la "buona educazione" viene invocata ogni due per due come ipocrita criterio di selezione del vocabolario - è invece considerato normale fare casino in treno?

Musica, telefonate a voce alta o persino in viva voce, suonerie di ogni tipo, ragazzini che urlano e genitori che incitano, aspiranti manager delle vendite che fanno riunione aziendale in mezzo al corridoio ... un inferno.

Dal #Frecciarossa 9718 (in ritardo) è tutto per oggi.

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

@joefrancis505 @paulkrugman @lugaricano I wonder what 🇩🇪 will do with their automative crisis and super expensive energy prices. Few virtuous Nordic countries can’t save us. Looking forward for some magical capital markets unification policy

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

@joefrancis505 @paulkrugman @lugaricano The European social model might be a “favoletta” as we 🇮🇹 say. And unfortunately few are wary of this. I am not looking forward to work in Italy to pay the pension of my rich dad. And as a Brit you are probably aware of the Italianisation of the UK too. 🇫🇷 and 🇪🇸 are not too far

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

@joefrancis505 Fair enough, what got me triggered was your conclusion that from an European perspective this would be a “pathology”. The whole debate motivation between @paulkrugman and @lugaricano is about this, in the end. But I do have one simple answer to your point: R&D and firm size.

[Thariq @trq212]

been asking others at Anthropic how they stay in the loop with Claude and fully understand the work being done

this is one of my favorites from Suzanne:

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

Weed should be treated as alcohol. I don’t see any reason why having a couple of beers is better than having a joint. It’s just a matter of preferences.

[LogKa @LogKa11]

This is the best anti-drug video in history. In the past, drugs used to be associated with rebellious people/gangs who had to think ahead carefully about how and where they get their drugs. Some kids found that cool.

But legalization has allowed the lowest and dumbest members of society to use them. There’s nothing impressive about wasting your adult life by chronically smoking and rotting away at home.

Addiction controls their lives like chained prisoners. They can’t do any hobbies or activities because all of their plans revolve around getting their next supply of drugs to fuel their addiction.

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

Agree!!

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

You know what other tools know better than most instructors? Coursera and YouTube courses from top faculty, *the internet*, books from the library. How many students used those tools instead of formal ed? Very very few. How many will use Claude independently to learn the material? Probably the same amount.

I know it doesn’t sound glamorous, but the primary role of faculty is to get students in the seats and create incentives to actually absorb the information. This is your job. AI can help as a tool, I’ve seen some great harnesses of AI for education, but it will not do this.

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

That’s why studying history is important

[. @deityofnightt]

l've never seen anything more accurate

[Filippo Dell’Andrea @FeeloPi]

C’è un paper da scrivere qua?

[Reila🦋 @alexvalentine_]

sto collassando

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Russia’s war of aggression has once again crossed a red line—red line number 17,386, to be precise. Last night, a Russian drone struck a densely populated residential area in Romania, injuring civilians and hitting directly on EU and NATO territory. This is no longer a "regrettable collision" or a "debris accident." It is a clear escalation against a sovereign member state of the Alliance.
And how is the EU, under Ursula von der Leyen, responding? With full solidarity.

Words alone are no longer enough when Russian drones are already falling on Romanian high-rises.

Who is supposed to take this bunch of incompetent bureaucrats seriously anymore?

[Jeff Frieden @jafrieden]

Political economy of geoeconomics. In a comment on Clayton Maggiori Schreger, “Putting Economics Back Into Geoeconomics,” I argue we cannot understand geoeconomics without political economy. Now in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2026, available here. https://t.co/dFzZasZwIW

[Florin Bilbiie 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @FlorinBilbiie]

Ma Salvini ha visitato di recente la fabbrica Ferrari?