Bennet

Interested in economics and finance.

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

@alexander_jorde Es ist immer noch diese eine Steuererhöhung, dann ist alles gut.

Die Leute wollen verständlicherweise nicht arbeiten, wenn sie nur 400€ pro Monat mehr als im Bürgergeld bekommen.

[Bennet @bennetecon]

@roman_janssen I have questions… Why would there be people preferring $40 to $45?

[Renaud Foucart @RenaudFoucart]

In 2026, the ultimate proof of power is being able to force humans to read an AI-generated document you sent them.

[Bennet @bennetecon]

European countries have introduced digital service taxes to tax large (and mostly American) corporations like Amazon. However, it is European consumers who are paying the tax.

[Dominika Langenmayr @D_Langenmayr]

🚨New working paper🚨

Who actually bears the burden of digital service taxes (DSTs)? Governments introduced them to tax large digital firms like Amazon, but as revenue-based taxes they might be passed on. In a new paper with Rohit Muddasani, we study the that. A 🧵 1/7

[Bennet @bennetecon]

@roman_janssen I have seen comments stating this, but the wording of the question might be misleading. Confidence in AI about what? As source of truth, economic growth, help for everyday life, …?

[Marcus Pretzell 🥨 🇦🇷 @MarcusPretzell]

Es gibt in den USA einen enorm hohen statistisch messbaren Zusammenhang zwischen aktiver Glaubensausübung und Vertrauen in KI.
Neben dem selbsterklärenden Lacher, würde mich interessieren, woher das kommt. Mir fällt keine Erklärung ein.

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

If you have a weird gut feeling that most tax-increase activists have no idea how tax write offs work, your gut is spot on …

[Chris Weller @atlantic720]

@LiberalMut Mit rund 11.000 Dienstposten einschließlich nachgeordnetem Bereich ist das Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr die größte technische Behörde Europas.

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

German government websites offering sign language and even “easy language” for online services.
… They’re so close to offering English. So close. You can do it 👏👏

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

Wikipedia’s introductory paragraph about the accomplished TV executive Don Ohlmeyer lists as his main accomplishment that he fired Norm MacDonald.

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

Wow, the discussion around surrogacy is amazing. The amount of bad arguments against it reveal the limits of human reasoning. Most arguments boil down to visceral reactions, female “incubators”, gender norms (“men can’t nurture”), or homophobia (“sexual abuse”). Wth.

[Bennet @bennetecon]

@roman_janssen @schieritz Öl- und Gaskrise -> Anstieg der Strompreise -> Übergewinne von Erneuerbaren besteuern 😵‍💫

[Bennet @bennetecon]

@Leseerlaubnis @roman_janssen @VQuaschning Kernkraftwerke produzieren konstant Strom, erneuerbare Energien schwanken über das Jahr, was über teure fossile Brennstoffe ausgeglichen werden muss, insbesondere im Winter. Fragen Sie gern Ihren Diplomingenieur, ob er das in der Graphik nachvollziehen kann.

[Bennet @bennetecon]

3 likely factors to consider:

1) Retirees tend not to consume their housing wealth -> Countries with higher homeownership have larger inheritances.

2) Fewer children per couple -> inheritances are shared with fewer siblings.

3) Poor economic past -> little wealth to inherit.

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

Wealth is highly concentrated and largely inherited in countries such as Spain, Italy, Austrian and Germany. Inheritances and gifts play a considerably smaller role in net wealth in countries such as Portugal, Hungary or Latvia.

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

Some members of the German SPD want to regulate VPNs to ensure age verification can’t be avoided by using the Internet in a free country. A good example of The Road to Serfdom: The ineffectiveness of regulation spirals into even further regulation.

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

If we limit approval time and a deadline is approaching, accountable officials will opt to reject the proposal outright. Stressing the approval process won’t fix it, and will lead to even more rules down the line.
There is no way around deregulation.

[Philipp Lergetporer @lergetporer]

Very happy that our paper “Gender Norms and Labor-Supply Expectations” (w/ E. Grewenig & K. Werner) is published in @EJ_RES (https://t.co/jwnHVhETXl).
In a survey of 2,000 adolescents, making traditional gender norms salient lowers girls’ expected work hours and related outcomes.

[Bennet @bennetecon]

@roman_janssen It’s called random effects and is often used in machine learning.

[Bennet @bennetecon]

@all2gethernow @Cernovich The explosion in silver demand is astounding. The preference for physical silver rather than derivatives also cannot explain the price increase.

[ИАМОЯ @roman_janssen]

The answer, as I said many times before, lies in reliable internet browsers. No browser meant for human beings wants to be known to be the “robot browser”. That’s why selenium (a common web scraping tool) has become so useless. Webpages are walking themselves off against robots.