The 'bank of mum & dad' is an engine for consolidating & maintaining inequality.

The top 10% of earners received a disproportinate amount of help from family members to buy their first home.

As the size of the transfers for the top 10% suggest, the rich are helping themselves, stoking inflation in the housing market & blocking normal people's aspirations to own their own home.

One more dimension of the UK's problem with inequality, which compounds over time!

#housing #inequality

"Name your variables properly, *fool*", the programmer scoffs.

"Nobody will know that `t` is the time elapsed. The name should be descriptive" they mutter through gritted teeth as they block the PR.

A moment of pause. They exhale briskly through their nostrils and the rage subsides.

Composure regained, the programmer returns to their component building. Here is where the real work is happening

`class="ml-5 mr-2.5 px-6 py-3"`

Docusign just admitted that they use customer data (i.e., all those contracts, affidavits, and other confidential documents we send them) to train AI:

https://support.docusign.com/s/document-item?language=en_US&bundleId=fzd1707173174972&topicId=uss1707173279973.html

They state that customers "contractually consent" to such use, but good luck finding it in their Terms of Service. There also doesn't appear to be a way to withdraw consent, but I may have missed that.