Ben Schneider
@benmschneider.bsky.social
Research on work, job quality, and technology. Economic history PhD from Oxford. 🗽 in 🇳🇴
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While #EconSky is talking about tariffs today, @anselmkuesters.bsky.social and I investigate another "t"-term that is controversial in economics: Technological Unemployment
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While #EconSky is talking about tariffs today, @anselmkuesters.bsky.social and I investigate another "t"-term that is controversial in economics: Technological Unemployment
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#futureofwork #econhist (1/n)
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"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Genius Ben Stokes playing the long game to win the 2033-34 Ashes via bankrupting Cricket Australia by being terrible in the current series
Just weeks after forecasting a record year ahead, Cricket Australia is facing a multi-million dollar drain from the rapid-fire two-day Ashes opener
Two-day Test could cost Cricket Australia millions
CA had earmarked the Ashes to help balance the budget but if short Tests become the theme it may prove difficult
www.espncricinfo.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Genius Ben Stokes playing the long game to win the 2033-34 Ashes via bankrupting Cricket Australia by being terrible in the current series
Next: “Alienation, it’s a big problem. Workers, all over America, becoming aliens, because of technology. And we’re going to change that—so fast. Very fast. Nobody has dealt with alienation as strongly as I am.”
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Next: “Alienation, it’s a big problem. Workers, all over America, becoming aliens, because of technology. And we’re going to change that—so fast. Very fast. Nobody has dealt with alienation as strongly as I am.”
Even if we accept Yglesias’ prioritization, few views of material prosperity omit health, which is clearly and directly affected by pollution.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Even if we accept Yglesias’ prioritization, few views of material prosperity omit health, which is clearly and directly affected by pollution.
The sole observation that troubles my otherwise unshakable belief that New York 🗽 is The Greatest City in the World and Center of the Known Universe is the transport options to reach our airports. 🙃
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The sole observation that troubles my otherwise unshakable belief that New York 🗽 is The Greatest City in the World and Center of the Known Universe is the transport options to reach our airports. 🙃
Me, looking at the Oslo forecast every day and not seeing any significant snow:
a penguin is sitting on a chair with his arms crossed .
ALT: a penguin is sitting on a chair with his arms crossed .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Me, looking at the Oslo forecast every day and not seeing any significant snow:
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Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.
TFW you try to get ChatGPT to write some boilerplate text and it is SO bad (even after repeatedly changing the prompt) that you wonder why anyone uses it at all. 🤦🏻♂️
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
TFW you try to get ChatGPT to write some boilerplate text and it is SO bad (even after repeatedly changing the prompt) that you wonder why anyone uses it at all. 🤦🏻♂️
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Read the whole thread. @durlauf.bsky.social is right.
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Read the whole thread. @durlauf.bsky.social is right.
Can’t believe I only realized *after* spooky season that I should have been signing all of my October emails “Best witches”
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Can’t believe I only realized *after* spooky season that I should have been signing all of my October emails “Best witches”
To govern is to lose the next election.
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
To govern is to lose the next election.
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English Catholics in 1678:
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
English Catholics in 1678:
“I got rich by being one of the worst people on earth, but somehow not breaking any laws.”
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“I got rich by being one of the worst people on earth, but somehow not breaking any laws.”
People will just say anything these days cc @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
People will just say anything these days cc @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
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New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
A good day to travel from a current socialist hellhole ( 🇳🇴 ) to a future one ( 🗽).
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
A good day to travel from a current socialist hellhole ( 🇳🇴 ) to a future one ( 🗽).
Why do people make explicit references to history that they don’t understand? Quisling didn’t tell Norwegians to surrender in 1940, he tried to seize power during the invasion to make Norway a locally-ruled fascist state.
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Why do people make explicit references to history that they don’t understand? Quisling didn’t tell Norwegians to surrender in 1940, he tried to seize power during the invasion to make Norway a locally-ruled fascist state.
Scandal hits the United States of America as “Uncle” Sam revealed not to be sibling of the country’s parents.
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Scandal hits the United States of America as “Uncle” Sam revealed not to be sibling of the country’s parents.
Writing emails to “folks”:
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Writing emails to “folks”:
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
The acceptable face of America
(It me)
People who don’t stack their empty bins after airport security
a man in a military uniform is standing in a room with flags and says `` right to jail , right away '' .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in a room with flags and says `` right to jail , right away '' .
media.tenor.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
People who don’t stack their empty bins after airport security
Én uke igjen!
Call for Papers:
4th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games ❄️ in Economic History
📍 NTNU Trondheim
📅 29 January 2026
📄 CfP Deadline: 19 October
Vi forventer noen berømte gjester fra Byåsen IL 👀
#econhist #EconSky #skystorians
4th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games ❄️ in Economic History
📍 NTNU Trondheim
📅 29 January 2026
📄 CfP Deadline: 19 October
Vi forventer noen berømte gjester fra Byåsen IL 👀
#econhist #EconSky #skystorians
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Én uke igjen!
Reading successful funding applications
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reading successful funding applications
This is correct, but I think can be put more simply as: Trump thinks winning the 2024 election gave him the whole country (its institutions and its wealth) as his property.
The thing that distinguishes Trump’s approach to federalism from that of his predecessors is that he rejects the ontological premises of federalism itself, primarily the premise that states are sovereigns in any sense of that term. /1
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is correct, but I think can be put more simply as: Trump thinks winning the 2024 election gave him the whole country (its institutions and its wealth) as his property.
Great reporting except for the part about the 82nd Airborne “parachuting into” WWI. There was no parachute infantry in the First World War! Planes were way too small!
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Great reporting except for the part about the 82nd Airborne “parachuting into” WWI. There was no parachute infantry in the First World War! Planes were way too small!