TheNotoriousAMP t1_jedvpbg wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:55 AM

Reply to comment by CornFedIABoy in TIL in order to prevent certain legal instruments from operating in perpetuity, a Royal Lives Clause may be written into a contract which provides a definite but extended period of time usually tied to twenty-one years past the death of last living descendent of the current British monarch. by AudibleNod

You have to use a living person because the whole point of the Rule Against Perpetuities is to ban property from being locked up for too long.

TheNotoriousAMP t1_je90ksw wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:27 AM

Reply to comment by shamudawhale3 in Anyone in Shaw/Mt. Vernon Triangle been followed by a homeless guy? by shamudawhale3

I recognize him, had to deal with him as well. Threatened to beat me up, which was a bit comical, all things considered.

TheNotoriousAMP t1_iycmumg wrote on November 30, 2022 at 12:17 PM

Reply to comment by buckeyemav in USWNT earns more money with USMNT's win over Iran than in last two Women's World Cup wins combined by miguelito1991

Nah, it makes sense in a WNBA way.

The WNBA is heavily subsidized, but that subsidy is absolute peanuts for the NBA. So the NBA (and by extension its players) makes a small sacrifice of revenue/salary in return for a pretty effective PR campaign to get more women interested in basketball, and by extension watching the NBA.

Same thing for the US Soccer program. For the US men's team, this is a pretty minor amount of cash. Go back 10-15 years when most of the MNT was slumming it in MLS, then sure, it'd be a lot more. But nowadays pretty much all of the principal starters for the MNT (the people with actual bargaining power) make bank playing for European clubs.

By making this deal the MNT avoids the PR nightmare that the low pay for the WNT had been, helps increase resources for US soccer which gets more people playing, and reaps the rewards of the investment down the line in terms of greater audiences + player bases.