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If you have a problem with belligerent homeless people how about advocating for housing first policies rather than further criminalization, further trapping them in a cycle of poverty.

They come down on different people differently. As is the case with laws in general, color blind on paper does not mean it is in reality. Enforcement is conditional and changes the practice on the ground considerably.

Public drinking laws need to be repealed. They really disproportionately target homeless people, and prevent outdoor gatherings that are commonplace in cities around the world.

My mom used to teach in the building that is there now even in that old building you can't really hear the pike. I don't think it is that much of an issue.

Re: Pier 4 Office Tower | 140 Northern Ave | Seaport Yeah I'm in a conspiracy to ruin this board and apparently disagreements are entirely the fault of one side of them. Is your problem really that you just disagree with what I am saying? At least 4 others were involved in that argument...

Re: Pier 4 Office Tower | 140 Northern Ave | Seaport There is a strange tendency to try to stop criticism of certain things on this forum. It seems to come from an idea that we don't really have a right to want better for our city and ultimately those who profit from developing our city should...

The scale of those returns though is vastly different and one relies upon the other while the other has much of its value extracted by the other. The return on labor is precisely limited by profits, aka no boss ever pays you what you are worth, that just isn't how this system works. You also...

You summarised the point well. That is exactly why I took issue with it. To use the same term for both collapses inequality by loose terminology and ignores meaningful differences in form, scale, and position in the relations of production.

I think we have to be honest about the fact that that prosperity is being channeled back into the same pockets, or the pockets of people in materially similar situations. Maybe we want something else but what is really happening in reality is that. Money earned is used to give tax breaks to...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett We are more than on pace for the worst case scenarios of global warming and sea level rise. Multiple positive feedback loops have emerged that will make slowing either incredibly difficult. Both warming and ice melt are accelerating faster than many thought...

I was responding to a comment that was literally a list of tallish buildings and claiming it was a "renaissance." The connections emerging between neighborhoods is not a bad thing but a couple tall towers are not what is really doing that. If anyone is writing that off it is the comment I was...

A renaissance now means filling the sky with phallic monuments filled with offices and luxury condos; nothing to do with arts, or quality of architecture, urbanism, or ability of working people to actually live in this city, no it's just more tall things.

Again you are lacking all basic class analysis. Those who work for wages do so because they must do so to survive. While those who make profits take the surplus value of the labor of others by virtue of their ownership of the means of production, which obviously not everyone is able to have...

They are very distinct things. Your life is not a business generating value. The reason this matters is that wages and profits (again the value generated by labor but not paid to the worker) are in contradiction, if one rises the other falls. Profits can be increased among other ways by further...

This is just literally not what profit is. Profit is a product of surplus value extracted from labor. Your wage is definitionally not surplus value as it is always only a fraction of the value you actually created, the rest going to the bosses.

People do not work for profit they work for wages. Profits are the surplus value taken by the bosses.

Would it be physically possible to suspend a train line under the tobin or add one to it?

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District 1 Bromfield would get rid of kung fu video, that is the real travesty.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I kind of prefer the columns at street level otherwise an improvement I think.

Re: Seaport Parcels M1-M2 | Seaport Sq. | Seaport If we had said glass and prefab boxes would that have been better?