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Citizen complaint of the day: Class warfare has no place on the streets of Beacon Hill

Graffiti on Beacon Hill warns the upper class to spend money or somebody will eat the rich.

A concerned citizen wants something done about this Sharpie graffiti on Phillips Street. At least he or she maked "no" for the question of whether it's offensive.

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something i didn't earn for free or we'll cannibalize you and your family.

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I edited this comment away, landed in the wrong place.

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fuckin commie zombies

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the anti-free speech police will be after you.

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1954 is looking for you.

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Well, the message wants dedistribution of wealth under threat of cannibalism, so commie zombies is appropriate

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is not the content, it's that it was done with a modern-day Sharpie.

now, had it been done with a quill pen, i think we'd be fine.

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A friend of mine in high school misheard the Aerosmith song "Eat the Rich" as "Streets of Rage". Both statements would work here.

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Yup, school's back in session all right. Looks like they found a way to replace all the Occupy Boston graffiti sprays

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After a long hard summer of working in mom and dads basement these kids need to blow off some steam. Life can be very demanding living in a college dorm while trying to study Fine Art and/or Film.

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....they didn't write that on the bricks. There would be blood!

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At least it doesn't say "NOT ART' next to it.

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It's spelled too well for your common street artist. Clearly the work of a bourgey bastard trying to stir away the apathy in his neighbors to rid the city of its proles.

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That's not the least bit historic. The neighborhood should sue.

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Why is a coal bin saying this?

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The real scum are in Weston, Wellesley, Dover, Buckingham, Browne and Nichols, The Cambridge School of Weston, Connecticut's gold coast. These are places they should be harassing and protesting. But yeah, BH has it's share of DINKs, F/T and retired financial services executives and fund managers. Just saying.

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Why do they need to be harassed for what they do with their own earnings?

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I hit a nerve.

How much $ did the public sector spend to bail out the financial services industry?

How much did the public sector spend to bail out, insure, and subsidize the real estate industry?

How much does the public sector subsidize the healthcare industry?

How much much does the public sector subsidize the higher education industry?

What have the people run these industries done after all this? They've made every attempt they can think of and think they can get away with to screw employees and consumers, while they claim they 'saved' (READ: pocketed) $. They've outsourced in order to avoid liability, provide decent benefits, and claim plausible deniability when shit doesn't quite turn out the way they planned (or they got caught behaving like assholes). They've been at war with most, by far most, American workers, and have flooded the country with immigrants (illegal), demand and lobby for more visas, all to screw American workers while they pocket the 'savings'. BH is full of these type executives, their spoiled spawn.

And you'd be surprised to know what I do for a living (no trust fund for me). I'm not the kind of person you probably have in your mind after reading this.

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Because someone is better off than you. Life isn't fair and income/class inequality has existed since the beginning of civilization.

Nothing is stopping you from entering the same industry, except maybe your inability to think rationally.

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Just because it exists, doesn't mean its right. Especially in the case of Beacon Hill's 'old money' gained via horrible things like slavery, exploitation, etc.
Class struggle becomes much more relevant nowadays as there's nothing holding capitalists back anymore(there used to be a nice counterbalance in form of Soviet Union) and we see growing inequality and income disparity.

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you'd prefer N. Korea's system!

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Your shallow analysis is amusing. Once you grow a little older, you will learn that things are not black and white and there are shades between wild capitalism and some crazy Marxist monarchy of N.Korea

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It's a brutal kleptocracy, just like the Soviet Union was, with the main exception that Soviet dictators didn't inherit their positions from their porn-loving daddies - and eventually they had more nukes.

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How many of these folks do you really think are living on Beacon Hill? Not to mention, Beacon Hill was pretty much the center of the abolitionist movement by both black and white Bostonians. But why am I arguing with someone who thinks that the Soviet Union was a "nice counterbalance?" Nope, no "horrible things" ever happened there.

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Yeah, there's a reason the Union Club has its name.

Of course college kids who wanna yell and scream about the kkkapalists and their old money they want to go to float them till their underwater basket weaving degree becomes marketable have no actual sense of history so go figure.

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We (the U.S.) are run by oligarchs. Our government(s) and private sector special interests, especially multinational corporations, are so intertwined it's incestuous. The filthy rich and large, too big to fail corporations receive special privileges and have access to information that help them consolidate and control whole industries, and become even more fabulously wealthy. They control stock markets to benefit them first and foremost. And what happens when a corporation admits to committing massive fraud? Executives go to prison? More often than not they end up paying a pennies on the dollar fine. It's ridiculous and you know it. The system is totally rigged. It's a house game.

And I am FAR from being a commie nor am I 'jealous'.

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And I'm a forensic accountant affiliated with a federal agency. I work on low to midlevel fraud cases and know how this goes. There's a lot more detail that you don't see. Alex Jones rants don't help your argument.

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Alex who?

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Isn't beacon hill well known for the old money folks?

And again, you obviously know very little about Soviet Unions history.

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Yes, it was known for the Brahmins. But you might want to see if you can look up why the Vilna Shul and the Museum of African-American History are both on Beacon Hill. Its history veers far more to those shades of gray you seem fond of.

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I think the people of the former Soviet Union would disagree with you that their form of dictatorial socialism was a "nice counterbalance" to the "capitalists." After all, they overthrew that form of government in 1989 and have since become a wildly capitalist country (although they are now devolving into a capitalist monarchy). I think what you are looking for is that the wider acceptance of Marxist theory used to provide a "nice counterbalance" to the capitalists. The only problem with Marxist theory is that it is Utopian nonsense and, when applied, has been a universal, utter failure time and again. The Soviets and Chinese threw it out the window long ago. The only remaining places in the world that attempt to implement it are Cuba and Venezuela, and the people there don't like it very much, as it has ruined their quality of life. Mind you, the uber-capitalist theories of the likes of Ayn Rand (another Russian who came up with a Utopian economic philosophy) that are now so in vogue are equally worthless. What we need in this country now is just a good progressive movement, and a resurgence of the Bull Moose party. The uber rich can keep their wealth, as long as they produce a Roosavelt once in a while.

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Well, I am from Soviet Union and despite numerous shortcomings and problems, we had a pretty great country. The govt wasn't overthrown and as you might know, there was a referendum held in 1991 in which the vast majority of the people voted to save SU. The whole collapse was initiated by the elite who saw an opportunity to gain wealth by becoming oligarchs.

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Ask the Ukrainians of the 1930s. Or the Poles of the 1940s. Or the Hungarians of the 1950s. Or the Czechs of the 1960s. And that's just to start.

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make you consider that if EVERYONE decided to be a hedge fund manager or an investment banker things might get a little weird. Not to mention we actually NEED people to be nurses, teachers, cooks, garbage collectors, etc. What would be nice is if the people with lower-paying jobs could still manage to earn a living wage.

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Do you know what DINK stands for? My live-in boyfriend and I are "DINKS" but we don't live in Beacon Hill, we live in Roxbury. Should we be harassed because we both have jobs and are childless?

Of course not, just like no one in Beacon Hill deserves to be harassed just because someone assumes that they are wealthy. I really can't stand the "you have money and I don't, therefore, I should be given what you have because I want money too, even though I have done even less to earn it than you have" idea that somehow came out of Occupy.

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You should be harassed as gentrifiers obviously. (sarcasm)

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Foiled again!

If we live on Beacon Hill, we have too much money. If we live in Roxbury in a restored--previously condemned building/drug den, we are evil gentrifiers. Where is a DINK couple to go in this city?

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Then we can bash you for being an elitist who lives in the leafy suburbs and should have any commentary on life in Boston.

Or Medford.

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by the people living in Section 8 housing on Beacon Hill, or the people living in the subsidized elder housing, or the people living in the subsidized HIV+ housing.

Phillips street is a particularly ironic place for such a sentiment, given its proximity to all three.

Yeah, I'm a broken record on that topic, but so are the folks who trot out the tired old "exclusive province of the smug, entitled super-rich" trope every time the neighborhood is mentioned.

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percentage of folks that live on The Hill (which is still considered one of the most expensive areas to live in Boston, I believe). So I am going to venture forth that the majority of folks living on The Hill are of the "smug, entitled super rich" in many people's eyes.

But aside from that, I do acknowledge that The Hill does have some (tiny) diversity and and to surmise that everyone on my favorite hill is swimming in money is silly.

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You know, once you max FICA you don't suddenly become compeltely anonymous and devoid of any character. The "diversity" is everyone, not just those who aren't a rich stereotype.

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MY WIFE lived in a fourth-floor walk-up one room apartment on Beacon Hill at the time of our meeting. As might be imagined, she wasn't rich. There are loads of places in that neighborhood where folks who have jobs downtown, and who like being within walking distance to those jobs, reside.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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to have a pretty good income to afford a space on The Hill. I had a colleague who just lost her apartment that she had for a few years (a very tiny studio) on The Hill (due to the owner wanting to sell the building) and had to move outside of Boston since she could not afford anything.

And it really depends on how one defines "rich". To many who live in this world, you and I would be considered "rich". But to those that live in say, Louisberg Square?

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OK, I have to agree that lots of folks in poorer third-world nations would love to have whatever we have, Whyaduck, but in context I'm not rich and never have been. If I lost my sources of income today and had to live solely on savings, I'd likely be on some sort of relief or on the street within two years. And, since that accumulation of cash includes that which came as a result of my marriage, MY WIFE isn't - and wasn't - rich. She was paying approximately the same rent as I was paying in Dorchester at the time (though I had four rooms to her one, I'll grant you that.)

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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I tell the Suffolk students I work with that the back of the hill was a low-rent neighborhood, not all THAT long ago.

I love the stunned look on their faces, and the peals of laughter that follow.

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It's kind of funny ("interesting" funny not "hah hah" funny) that the writer actually hit his/her target and probably does not know it.

If you get offended at people suggesting you have too much money you probably do. For the record: I am fortunate but could not care less what others think about it.

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I don't think anyone is particularly offended, except by empty, shallow catchphrase graffiti made by someone who thinks he's making a bold statement but really just highlighting his own ignorance.

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it was a low-effort irl troll and people got worked up enough to post over 50 comments on this thing, spend your fridays better people

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I don't get offended when someone suggests that I have too much money, but I do get offended when someone suggests that people who live in Beacon Hill have too much money, or people who live in South Boston are antisocial douchebags, or people who live in Roxbury are gangbangers and lowlifes.

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people who live on The Hill have too much money? Is that fair?

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It's just silly. Do you have some specific cut-off in mind which is "too much?"

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When it exceeds more than the takehome of the person complaining, or if their choice of job doesn't agree with their stereotypical ideal.

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I just think it's rude to say to someone that they have "too much" money. Who gets to decide how much is too much, anyway?

I thought the lady who basically sat on my lap on the T yesterday because she was wide enough for three seats was "too large" to try and squeeze into the single seat available, but I did not say so to her. That would have been rude, too.

Perhaps if people would put more focus into their own lives instead of worrying about what everyone else has, we would all be better off.

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they didn't write this vandal screed on the brick. That shabby Quincy granite can take anything.

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http://youtu.be/OvzePsDYv7k

(Explicit lyrics warning.)

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