David Elikwu FRSA ⚔️

Council Tax is one of the strangest taxes in Britain. Two neighbours can live in homes worth millions And pay almost the same as someone in a property worth a fraction of that How is that logical?

Tomorrow might be 8M active user celebration day. Just saying

Thank you to the 7M active users who are now using Codex and ChatGPT Work. We have added a banked reset to everyone's account to celebrate the milestone. You can apply the reset in the desktop app or on web and it will replenish the weekly usage for you. Have fun out there.

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We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.

Bad idea and shouldn’t happen. The reason is simple - most players get traded. If you can get traded but you have a small stake in a particular team, you effectively have a sports betting problem. Players shouldn’t be allowed to own shares of any team while actively playing. Imagine knowing you could bump the stock of a smaller team by moving there. Buy the stock, demand the trade. Or you’ve been traded unwillingly and are playing the team whose shares you hold in a final. If your team wins you get nothing. If you lose, you make bank. Etc etc. Two ways to make it work: 1. Player equity option pool. The league might have and set aside some shares players can earn over the course of their careers. Play longer, get more. And they’re options so you can choose to buy them. You can only exercise on retirement but strike price is from when they were awarded (you still get the gain from when you got them until you use them). 2. Team equity options: Players on a team for more than x period of time, or who join on a rookie contract, are automatically awarded x number of options. It’s all tenure based and you can’t buy any more unless you join a new team for x period, or you retire. These are both workable ideas but I don’t think teams will go for it, because they already effectively split profit with players. All the new TV money and deals that benefit the league mostly pass on through player salaries anyway - or so teams will claim. Players only get upside when playing for a team and no downside if investing in a team that doesn’t do well. You still get paid. Shareholders may get much less in that period. The lowest paid player could make more than a minority owner during their stint in a team. The only players who think differently are superstars who know they’re had a direct, marked, and prolonged impact on a team through jersey and ticket sales etc.

Jaylen Brown says players should be able to own equity in teams because they help increase the value of NBA franchises “Players should be able to invest alongside ownership groups and business opportunities. I don't understand why that’s ever been a thing. It's like you’re an athlete and they make it seem like they can control how much wealth or growth that you could actually accumulate. I think that's wrong” “I also think that any other major corporation, if you work for Apple, Nike or anywhere, if you're a CEO, if you're someone who has been on a board for a large amount of time, you get equity in a company at some point. You are part of it” “I think athletes should be looked at in the same way. You played for the Celtics for 20 years, you should get a piece of equity because you helped accumulate the growth. That's the part that gets lost in translation. The sweat equity you put in. You get compensated for doing your job, but you don't get compensated for the growth. At major corporations and companies you do, or at least some of the big ones”

University of Chicago Law School had decided to ban *not just AI* but laptops from the first year law classroom. This is the way!