Verena Gradinger
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Verena Gradinger
@averenasour.bsky.social
🌚 26. She/her.
📌 Somewhere between Vienna and London.
📔 Political Economist in the making @SOAS University of London
Critical Macrofinance by day. Ecological Marxism by night.
Can't believe you're publicly calling me out like this 😭😭
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Missing you in the 9:30 state theory session 👀
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I totally agree with your point in terms of taxation though
I think it really is a question of what people (feel) they get out of it and there the anglo-saxon needs based social security system does not help making people feel like they benefit from the system the way someone in central Europe would
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My econ stats agree, my personal experience somewhat doesn't. I guess the London/rest UK divide in terms of CoL is far above average and there's also a big skewing in income distribution, which is why being "middle class" in London feels a lot worse in quality of living than rest of Europe
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I actually think the big problem here is (the lack of) public services and how we account for it. Living in London comes with costs of e.g. public transport which would be around 3× what it costs in most EU countries. Even worse for housing, which is notoriously underrepresented in data such as CPI
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Wir schaffen das 💪🏼💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
EQUALFIN @ FU 🥲🫡
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Definitiv. Man merkt wirklich diese Thiel Techbro Pipeline ganz hart in diesem Interview.
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Most unhinged behaviour
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Openly admitting you can now just buy your way out of court cases
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I mean....
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Imagine you TEACH fucking philosophy using ChatGPT

Humanity is doomed
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Them: so what exactly are you studying?
Me:
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM